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Wilderness boy

Margery Evernden

1955169 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1955
first published
  • 1955Putnam · 218 pages · ENG
  • 2001University of Pittsburgh Press · 169 pages · ENGISBN 9780822957546

In western Pennsylvania during the summer of 1794, sixteen-year-old Jonathon Garrett sympathizes with and supports his uncle and others who oppose the new federal tax on farmers, yet works to ensure a peaceful end to the resulting Whiskey Rebellion.

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