This is a continuation of the chapter,“Settling the Western Virginia Backcountry” from the Ph.D dissertation of John M. Boback: Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 to 1794. The first portion of that chapter can be read here. ~~~~~ All white settlers driven out of western Virginia by early 1758 [...]
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Settling the Western Virginia Backcountry, Part Two
Posted in Albany Treaty, Big Bone Lick, Chief Opechancanough, Colonel Henry Bouquet, Fort Duquesne, Fort Pitt, Frederick Christian Post, French & Indian War, General John Forbes, General Robert Monckton, Greenbrier Company, Iroquois, Iroquois Confederacy, John Boback, Keekyuscung, land speculators, Lenape (Delaware), Ohio Company, Ottawas, Pisquetomen, Scotch-Irish, Seven Years War, Shawnee, Shenandoah Valley, trans-Allegheney frontier, Treaty of Easton, William Gooch, Wyandot on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
School of the Longhunter: scenes from the encampment
Posted in "Hair-buyer" Hamilton, American Revolution, Battle of Pt Pleasant, Bill Rundorff, Charlie Brown, Chateaubriand, Chief Logan, Desert Fathers, Doug Wood, Elisha Waldern, Enkiddu, Epic of Gilgamesh, George Rogers Clark, Henry Knox, Henry Skaggs, John the Baptist, Joseph Hollingshead, longhunters, Lord Byron, Lord Dunmore's War, Mad Anne Bailey, Mark Baker, Mark Hersee, Michael Seidelman, Nathan Kobuck, Natural Man, Noble Savage, re-enacting, Rousseau, School of the Longhunter, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Sumerians, Suzanne Dennis, Tacitus, Tecumseh, Ted Franklin Belue, William Baker, William Carr on April 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
~ ~ ~ When I arrived at the encampment at Pricketts Fort on Friday morning, there was still a bit of snow on the ground, and large flakes were falling. Earlier the ground had been white, but by now only the hills above Pricketts Creek, where they emerged above the mist, were still mantled in [...]
The Shawnee: responses to European encroachment
Posted in Shawnee on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a continuation of the chapter, “Shawnee Culture and the Ceremonialism of Violence” from the Ph.D dissertation of John M. Boback: Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 to 1794. The first portion of that chapter, “The Shawnee: their septs, their chiefs and their women”, can be read [...]
The Shawnee: seasonal cycles of village labor, hunting, fishing, trapping & trading
Posted in beans, corn, fur trapping, Green Corn Ceremony, Huron, intertribal trade, Kanawha Valley, maple syrup, Mary Draper Ingles, pumpkins, salt, Shawnee, slash-and-burn agriculture, squash, tobacco, white-tailed deer on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a continuation of the chapter, “Shawnee Culture and the Ceremonialism of Violence” from the Ph.D dissertation of John M. Boback: Indian Warfare, Household Competency, and the Settlement of the Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 to 1794. The first portion of that chapter, “The Shawnee: their septs, their chiefs and their women”, can be read [...]
The Shawnee: their septs, their chiefs & their women
Posted in Black Hoof, Chalagawtha sept, Doug Wood, John Boback, Kispokotha sept, Maykujay sept, Peckuwe sept, Shawnee, Tenskwatawa, Thawegila sept, William Penn on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As part of an effort to employ this blog, not only a source of news about current events at Pricketts Fort, but also as a resource of information about the early history of the lower Monongahela valley, and of the Virginia frontier generally, I will be posting a series of excerpts from John M. Boback’s [...]
Backwoods Virginians and “The First Declaration of Independence”
Posted in "Intolerable Acts", Adam Stephen, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, Daniel Morgan, Fort Gower, Fourth of July, George Rogers Clark, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Cresap, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Simon Kenton, William Crawford, Zackquill Morgan on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There are many stories to be told of the earliest days of what is now West Virginia, and most have been told elsewhere already. But one story, which ties the origins of this region to the origins of the nation, deserves to be told more often. It involves a document which, while little known except [...]
Squire Miller killed in Shawnee attack; Mistress Rebecca taken captive
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, beans, Fall Festival, Shawnee, Tom Carson on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It all begins peacefully enough on a mild October morning, with Squire Miller and Mistress Rebecca picking beans in the field outside the fort. Little do they suspect that the fearsome Shawnee Two Hawks and his band are skulking up through the forest only yards away! At just the right moment, when his intended victims have their backs [...]
Fall comes to the old frontier
Posted in autumn, beans, corn, Indian Summer, pumpkins, Shawnee, squash on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fall on the old Virginia frontier was, above all, a season of preparation against the coming Winter. The foundation of the cabin would be banked against the cold wind with a thick matting of cornstalks and pumpkin vines, or straw if they had it, or even banked with earth. And naturally a substantial stockpile of [...]
The ghost of Ostenaco spotted at Pricketts Fort…
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Cherokee, Doug Wood, Mary Rose Mustachio, Ostenaco, Shawnee on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Participants in the 2009 Woodland Indian Camp at Pricketts Fort were witness to a rare event on Wednesday evening, July 1: the appearance of one of the most widely renowned and honored of Cherokee chiefs, the mid-eighteenth century orator and warrior Ostenaco (portrayed by historian and re-enactor Doug Wood). During the early 1760s, Ostenaco moved [...]
Ancestral Wars
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Chief Logan, civilian militia, Jacob Prickett, Kimberly Miller, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Okey Simmons, Prickett family, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War. At the time [...]
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- 2012 School of the Longhunter comes to Pricketts Fort, April 12-15
- Settling the Western Virginia Backcountry, Part Two
- Scenes from the 18th-century Muzzleloading & Accoutrements Trade Show
- Settling the western Virginia backcountry: part 1
- 18th century Muzzleloading & Accoutrements Trade Show coming to Pricketts Fort, Feb 24-26
- Annual 18th century Christmas Market to run from Fri, Dec 9 to Sun, Dec 11
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