The Travels of John Heckewelder in Frontier America
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The Travels of John Heckewelder in Frontier America

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The Travels of John Heckewelder in Frontier America

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Paul A. Wallace gathers the diaries and journals of John Heckewelder to prepare this engrossing account of a man who traveled extensively in the Western frontier in the service of the Moravian Church and the United States government, and recorded a great deal of early American history along the way. Heckewelder also lived among the Indians for nearly sixty years, learning their languages, sharing their activities, and wrote vividly of his life with them. Between 1762 and 1813 he crossed the Allegheny Mountains thirty times and made numerous trips down the Ohio River as far south as Kentucky, and along the Great Lakes to Detroit. Heckewelder tells of the first great migration of whites into the West, and also wrote of the early settlements in many important cities, including Detroit, Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Schenectady and Albany.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction: The Moravians
  4. I. From Bedford, Engladn to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 1743-1751
  5. II. The Muskinghum in the Shadow of Pontiac's War: 1762
  6. III. The Delawars at Home: 1762
  7. IV. Shingas the Terrible:1762
  8. V. A Black Cloud Rising:1762
  9. VI. Philidelphia Mounts Guard: 1763-1765
  10. VII. Courier to Wyalusing: 1765-1770
  11. VIII. Glickhickan and the City of Peace: 1771-1772
  12. IX. Schonbrunn, the Beautiful Spring: 1773
  13. X. The Three Sisters
  14. XI. Logan and the Shwnee War
  15. XII. Shamans and Sorcerers
  16. XIII. Between Two Black Clouds
  17. XIV. To Goshochking with a Message from Congress: 1777-1778
  18. XV. Death of Captain White Eyes: 1778
  19. XVI. Salem on the Muskingum: 1779-1780
  20. XVII. Pachgantschihilas: 1781
  21. XVIII. Enter the Half King: 1781
  22. XIX. Captivity: 1781
  23. XX. Under Sandusky: 1781
  24. XXI. Detroit: 1781
  25. XXII. Gnadenhutten: 1782
  26. XXIII. Simon Girty: 1782
  27. XXIV. The Chippewa Country: 1782-1785
  28. XXV. Cayahaga: 1785
  29. XXVI. Return to Bethlehem: 1786
  30. XXVII. Down the Ohio to Marietta: 1788
  31. XXVIII. To Pittsburgh and Petquotting on the Huron River: 1789
  32. XXIX. To the Falls of the Ohio and Vincennes: 1792
  33. XXX. To the Indian Conference at Detroit:1793
  34. XXXI. Gnadenhutten Revisited: 1797
  35. XXXII. To Fairfield (Moraviantown)
  36. XXXIII. To French Creek: 1800
  37. XXXIV. Thirty Thousand Miles with John Heckwelder: 1754-1813
  38. Epilogue
  39. Biographical and Geographical Glossary
  40. Index