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Historical person
1706–1759
Christopher Gist was a colonial explorer, surveyor and frontier agent employed by the Ohio Company. He guided George Washington on the 1753–1754 mission to warn the French from the Ohio Country and played an important role in mapping routes and negotiating with Native communities.
Tim Holden’s Rivers Run Deep places Christopher Gist within a narrative shaped by exploration, travel and cultural encounter, empire, conquest and resistance, and political ambition and government.
Series
The New World Saga follows the Washington family and a wider cast of soldiers, traders, settlers, Indigenous diplomats, servants and political agents through the imperial wars that reshaped eighteenth-century North America. It begins with Lawrence Washington’s service in the War of Jenkins’ Ear, then turns to the young…
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