<p><span class="deck"> Or, a dogged attempt to assemble a most remarkable company—the famous survivors of the battle lost by a British general on the Monongahela. Everybody who was anybody was there, from George Washington to Daniel Boone. Everybody, that is, but B. Gratz Brown</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “Surveyor, mountain man, soldier, businessman, wanderer, captain of emigrants, farmer…he was himself the westward-moving frontier.”</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> John Filson first brought the frontier hero to notice, giving him fine words that made him the idol of the romanticists</span> </p>