The Killing of Jane McCrea: An American Tragedy on the Revolutionary Frontier - Hardcover
by Paul Staiti
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Westholme PublishingISBN-13:9781594164460ISBN-10:1594164460UPC:9781594164460Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Women, Native AmericanBook Topic:Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Weight:1.0009Product ID:SCA1ZTRJ6W
The Killing of Jane McCrea: An American Tragedy on the Revolutionary Frontier
The killing of Jane McCrea on July 26, 1777, on the outskirts of a village in the northern Hudson Valley, would unexpectedly rupture the British advance from Canada that was meant to crush the American Revolution in one knockout blow. On that day, twenty-five-year-old McCrea, an unremarkable person preparing for an impending marriage, was assaulted, scalped, and killed by a group of Native...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Westholme PublishingISBN-13:9781594164460ISBN-10:1594164460UPC:9781594164460Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Women, Native AmericanBook Topic:Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Weight:1.0009Product ID:SCA1ZTRJ6W
Paul Staiti is the author of Samuel F. B. Morse and Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes; the latter was Colonial Dames of America Book of the Year in 2018 and was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction. He has written on John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, and William Michael Harnett, and has lectured widely at...
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