Just over two centuries ago the Province of Pennsylvania, a colony founded by pacifist Quakers, entered unwillingly upon an extensive program of military action. By the spring of 1756 more than a dozen forts garrisoned by paid Pennsylvania troops marked for the first time a boundary between the white settlements and a hostile wilderness. On the historical scene these frontier forts, the first ones built by Pennsylvania, stand like monuments marking the close of a day of unarmed colonists and friendly Indians and the beginning of an era of frontier conflict and troubled Indian relations.

William A. Hunter
ISBN 1-889037-20-6
Hard cover