John W. Harpster

John W. Harpster

John W. Harpster was curator of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.

Crossroads

Descriptions of Western Pennsylvania 1720–1829

Crossroads is a collection of thirty-seven colorful and perceptive writings left by early travelers and settlers who ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains. Traders, surveyors, soldiers, preachers, and immigrants, some of them well known and some obscure, tell of the loneliness, terror, and beauty of the frontier.