Award Name Bancroft Prize Award category History James Merrell\'s brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania Frontier in efforts to maintain the peace.
From the Quaker colony\'s founding in the 1680s Into the 1750s, Merrell shows us how the go-betweens survived in the woods, dea.
It is also a reflection on the meanings of wilderness to the colonists and natives of the New World.
Award Name Bancroft Prize Award category History James Merrell\'s brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania Frontier in efforts to maintain the peace