# Pittsburgh

Author: Dahlinger, Charles W. (Charles William), 1858-1935

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71653

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pittsburgh+Dahlinger&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Until all fear of Indian troubles had ceased, there was practically no social life in American pioneer communities. As long as marauding bands of Indians appeared on the outskirts of the settlements, the laws were but a loose net with large meshes, thrown out from the longer-settled country whence they emanated. In the numerous interstices the laws were ineffective. In this Pittsburgh was no exception. The nominal reign of the law had been inaugurated among the settlers in Western Pennsylvania as far back as 1750, when the Western country was no man’s land, and the rival claims set up by France and England were being subjected to the arbitrament of the sword. In that year Cumberland Count...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pittsburgh-71653/chapters/16/index.md)