Dakas, Jack

I grew up just miles from Crawford's home along the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania. In my youth, I tramped all along Braddock's Road, not knowing how much history was written there. As I grew up, relatives would tell stories about the early settlers, about William Crawford. I would sit and listen around summer campfires and wonder why others didn't know much about all that happened in years gone by. After a long teaching career, I thought about Crawford's story more and more. I came to realize that it wasn't so much that I decided to write his story, the fact was, I never thought of not wr...