Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748–1816)

Scottish-born author and judge. Brackenridge emigrated to the USA as a child. He helped to establish the first newspaper and bookstore in frontier Pittsburgh and went on to become a Supreme Court Justice. He is best known for Modern Chivalry (1792–1815), regarded as the first novel based in the American West and still a pertinent satire of the social and political conditions of the era.