Greenhorn on the Frontier

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Greenhorn on the Frontier
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First edition
Author Ann Finlayson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Publisher Frederick Warne & Co
Publication date
1974
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages209 pp
ISBN 0-7232-6104-0
OCLC 1009199

Greenhorn on the Frontier is an historical, young-adult novel by the American writer Ann Finlayson.

It is set in 1770s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just before the American Revolutionary War, and tells the story of nineteen-year-old Harry Warrilow and his twenty-three-year-old sister, Sukey, who move their few possessions by hand cart to start their own farm on the Western Pennsylvania frontier. The plot features characters like Simon Girty, Arthur St. Clair, and Indian tribes such as the Shawnee and Lenape. [1]

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References

  1. Skurzynski, Gloria (1992). Greenhorn on the Frontier (1974), Kirkus Reviews, 1974. ISBN   0027829219.