Journey on the Forbidden Path: Chronicles of a Diplomatic Mission to the Allegheny Country, March-September, 1760 Transactions, American Philosophical ... of the American Philosophical Society, 1333)

This vol. draws together records documenting a little known diplomatic effort to establish peace along the war-torn Appalachian frontier during the spring, summer, & fall of 1760. Assembled here is a representative sample of the council minutes, speeches, letters of correspondence, warrants, inventories, passports, journals, diaries, & other types of records documenting a frontier diplomatic mission of the period. These records reveal something of the range & diversity of documentary materials available to scholars interested in reconstructing diplomatic events along a distant frontier during a critical period of Am. history. Individually, they document political maneuvers & details of everyday life, many of which are recorded nowhere else. Collectively, they provide additional keys to understand better how Indians & colonists shaped a new diplomatic landscape along the Penna. frontier after the Brit. succeeded in breaking French power in N. Am. in 1760.

Robert S. Grumet is an anthropologist, a retired National Park Service archeologist, and former Senior Research Associate with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Journey on the Forbidden Path: Chronicles of a Diplomatic Mission to the Allegheny Country, March―September, 1760 (1999), First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York (2011), and The Munsee Indians: A History (2022).