Allegheny Episodes

Allegheny Episodes
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000055169875
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Allegheny Episodes by : Henry W. Shoemaker

More Allegheny Episodes

More Allegheny Episodes
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Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027523409
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Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis More Allegheny Episodes by : Henry W. Shoemaker

Popularizing Pennsylvania

Popularizing Pennsylvania
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 0271042214
ISBN-13 : 9780271042213
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Popularizing Pennsylvania by : Simon J. Bronner

Today his memory lives on in the legends he helped promote, such as that of the Indian princess "Nita-nee," for whom Central Pennsylvania's Nittany Mountain is supposedly named, and his instrumental role in creating Pennsylvania's noted system of parks and forests and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Pennsylvania Mountain Stories

Pennsylvania Mountain Stories
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Total Pages : 94
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000010431740
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Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Pennsylvania Mountain Stories by : Henry W. Shoemaker

The Black Moose in Pennsylvania

The Black Moose in Pennsylvania
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 47
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547043195
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Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Moose in Pennsylvania by : Henry W. Shoemaker

Henry W. Shoemaker in the book "The Black Moose in Pennsylvania" discusses the history and origin of Black Moose. This book looks into fossil remains, traditional evidence, historical evidence, etc. to verify if Black moose were once inhabitants of the Pennsylvania forest. A theoretical book that studies the existence and history of the Black moose throughout the Pennsylvania regions.

The House of the Black Ring

The House of the Black Ring
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780271059419
ISBN-13 : 0271059419
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The House of the Black Ring by : Fred Lewis Pattee

Fred Lewis Pattee, long regarded as the father of American literary study, also wrote fiction. Originally published in 1905 by Henry Holt, The House of the Black Ring was Pattee’s second novel—a local-color romance set in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania. The book’s plot is driven by family feud, forbidden love, and a touch of the supernatural. This new edition makes this novel accessible to new generations of modern-day readers. General readers will find in The House of the Black Ring a thriller that preserves details of rural life and language during the late nineteenth century. Scholars will read it as an expression of cultural anxiety and change in the decades after the Civil War. An introduction by poet and essayist Julia Spicher Kasdorf situates the novel within the context of social and literary history, as well as Pattee’s own biography, and provides a compelling argument for its importance, not only as a literary artifact or record of local customs, but also as a reflection of Pattee’s own story intertwined with the history of Penn State at the turn of the twentieth century. Joshua Brown draws on his expertise in Pennsylvania German ethno-linguistics to interpret the dialect writing and to give readers a clearer view of the customs and regionalisms depicted in the book.

Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers

Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 633
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ISBN-10 : 9780271084589
ISBN-13 : 0271084588
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers by : Ronald E. Ostman

In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.