"The present work is a substantial revision of our earlier work entitled No Crooked Death, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1991"--Intro.

Dennis B. Downey is professor of history and director of the university honors college at Millersville University (Pennsylvania). He is the author of five books and two book-length web histories, the most recent of which is entitled "The Peopling of Pennsylvania: The Creation of a Multicultural Society" (2011).