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A fascinating look at life during pioneer times in western Pennsylvania. Describes the hardship, danger and drudgery of day-to-day life on the frontier. Topics include cabin raising, crop harvests, tanning, weaving, disease, religion, and superstition. Also follows the progression from pioneer life to industrial society.

The standard history of Pittsburgh tells the city's story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion.