HASTINGS’ WAY
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An Ideal Way to Die, a comic mystery set in Price Hill during the 1940s, available now!
In 1784, young Caleb Hastings left his home in New Haven, Connecticut, and traveled to America’s frontier in search of adventure. He soon met Captain Benjamin Stites, and a skirmish with a band of Indians won him a trophy.
In the lands along the Ohio River, he met another Indian, Chief Bold Face, who
adopted him and gave him the name Hanen-
General Arthur St. Clair changed the name of the settlements to Cincinnati, but it was Caleb Hastings and his hardy fellow pioneers who made it a great city. Caleb knew John Cleves Symmes, James Findlay, Martin Baum, John Dayton, William Henry Harrison, Rees Price, Elisha Hotchkiss, William Terry, Nicholas Longworth, Robert Fulton, and many other prominent historic figures. He was a builder and a mover, and with the help of his friend and engineering genius Willy Comber, Caleb developed a boat that could overcome the current of the mighty Ohio River, starting a boat building company that made travel up and down the Ohio possible. Caleb’s adventure took him to an enchanted land, a wilderness that he loved and tamed.
ROY HOTCHKISS
Historian & Author
An Historical Novel About Cincinnati’s Early Days
