Perry Heritage Collection
Three Bloody Days in July
In 1763 the
area beyond Blue Mountain north of Carlisle, Pennsylvania was an
unforgiving and hostile land.
European
settlers started inhabiting the land legally in the 1750s but Native
Americans, mostly Iroquois, Delaware, and Shawnee tribes also called
the area their home.
The great Path
Valley that stretches from the Carolinas to New York was a natural
travel route for the Indians for hundreds of years.
When the Europeans started inhabiting this valley the Indians
considered it an invasion of their lands.
In the 1750s
and 1760s there were continual minor skirmishes between the
Colonials and the Indians.
However, in July 1763 the skirmishes turned into full scale
war.
This book is
the story of the beginning of that war in the central Pennsylvania
counties of Perry and Juniata.
