Wilderness Boy Explained

Wilderness Boy
Author:Margery Evernden
Country:United States
Language:English
Publisher:Putnam
Release Date:1955
Media Type:Print (Hardback)
Pages:218 pp
Oclc:5956478

Wilderness Boy is an historical, young adult novel by American writer Margery Evernden.

Set in 1794 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh, it tells the story of sixteen-year-old Jonathon Garrett, who while on an errand for his frontier doctor uncle, is accosted by local farmers and enlisted to join them in raising a Liberty Pole. The events of the Whiskey Rebellion soon unfold.[1]

See also

Other novels that employ events of the Whiskey Rebellion:

Notes and References

  1. Book: Evernden . Margery . Wilderness Boy . 2001 . University of Pittsburgh Press . 978-0-8229-5754-6 .