The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South: How the Scotch-Irish and Germanics Settled the Uplands

Description

Author: Rouse, Parke, Jr. (1915-1997)

Publisher: Dietz Press

Pub Date: 1995

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  Previous owner’s stamp on upper corner half-title page.  Pencil markings throughout.  Slight edge and corner wear.

Notes: Originally published in 1973 by McGraw-Hill.  The Great Wagon Road ran for more than 435 miles, and in the late colonial era saw tens of thousands of migrants pass over it.  My grandmother told me “Our ancestors came through the Cumberland Gap.” and damned if she wasn’t right.