Pennsylvania mountain stories
Henry W. Shoemaker (1880<U+2013>1958) was known for his deep love for the wilderness and native cultures of Pennsylvania. The state's first official folklorist, he wrote more than twenty books detailing Pennsylvania's modern mythology. Pennsylvania Mountain Stories is perhaps Shoemak...
| Main Author: | Shoemaker, Henry W., 1880-1958. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Penn. :
Metalmark Books,
2005.
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Pennsylvania mountain stories
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| Online Access: |
Read online at Penn State's digital collection. |
Table of Contents:
- Why the Steiner House patient pulled through
- The story of Alter Rock
- The spook of Spook Hill
- The romance of Postoffice Rock
- The fate of Simeon Shaffer
- The legend of Penn's Cave
- The hermit of the Knobs
- Prairie king
- Old Righter's ghost
- The mountain soldier's presentiment
- Granny Myer's curse
- Witchcraft vs. mother-in-law
- The haunted tavern
- Fanny Hedden's hotel
- The ghost walk
- Ole Bull's castle
- Booneville Camp meeting
- The Bald Eagle silver mine
- The black wolf of Oak Valley
- The missing handicap winner
- The prisoner of Colby's Gap
- Gran'pap Myer's last walk
- The little grey
- The strange violinist
- A ghost of Aughwick
- In the lumber town
- The antiquity of Baretown
- Red Panther's funeral pyre
- Bob Giry's ear rings.