Stuart P Boehmig
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Downtown Pittsburgh is a 300-acre triangle of land where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers converge to form the mighty Ohio River. Between the rivers is a tiny spit of flat-bottom land once known as the gateway to the West, the portal to a vast, remote, unexplored wilderness. Ownership of this strategic wedge of land was fiercely contested for hundreds of years. The powerful Iroquois Nation first invaded the area in the 1600s during the Beaver...