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Fort Pitt: A Frontier History
Contributor(s): Crytzer, Brady J. (Author), Gutchess, Alan (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1609494113     ISBN-13: 9781609494117
Publisher: History Press
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)
- History | Military - United States
- Travel | Museums, Tours, Points Of Interest
Dewey: 974.886
LCCN: 2012001032
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.70 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
 
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Publisher Description:

Learn more about Fort Pitt, a key military bastion of the American Revolution and guard of the Western "frontier", Pittsburgh, through this vivid illustrated history.


With vivid detail, historian Brady Crytzer traces the full history of Fort Pitt, from empire outpost to a bastion on the frontlines of a new Republic. A keystone to British domination in the territory during the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion, it was the most technologically advanced fortification in the Western Hemisphere. Early patriots later seized the fort, and it became a rallying point for the fledgling Revolution. Guarding the young settlement of Pittsburgh, Fort Pitt was the last point of civilization at the edge of the new American West.


Contributor Bio(s): Crytzer, Brady J.: - Brady J. Crytzer is the winner of both the 2010 Donald S. Kelly Award and 2010 Donna J. McKee Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Service in the Academic Discipline of History. He received his MA from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.