Author Alan Fitzpatrick

Alan Fitzpatrick

Alan Fitzpatrick was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada before coming to the United States. He graduated from Kent State University with a degree in psychology, and took a job at the West Virginia Penitentiary as a classification counselor, and later owned and operated a retail business with his brother for 33 years. Alan has written four non-fiction American history books detailing the Native-American side of the story of wilderness war during the 1700s. Retired, Alan continues to lecture on history in the tri-state area and devotes his time to oil painting portraiture.

Weird Stories From Wheeling’s Wild Frontier and Native History

Alan Fitzpatrick

April 6, 2019

Editor's note: On Tuesday, April 9, the Ohio County Public Library will launch its 26th People's University, an eight-week series featuring weird, wild, wacky, whimsical stories from Wheeling, including: Native...

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