Wilderness boy

By Margery Evernden

Subjects: United states, history, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794, Juvenile fiction, History, Family life

Description: In western Pennsylvania during the summer of 1794, sixteen-year-old Jonathon Garrett sympathizes with and supports his uncle and others who oppose the new federal tax on farmers, yet works to ensure a peaceful end to the resulting Whiskey Rebellion.