Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1780-1865 - Paperback

by Leland Baldwin (Author)

The standard history of Pittsburgh tells the city\u2019s story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion.

Author Biography

Leland D. Baldwin (1898-1981) was a professor of American history at the University of Pittsburgh and an authority on the history of western Pennsylvania. Professor Baldwin was director of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey, which produced 10 books in the late 1920's and 30's on the region's history.