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In the Seven Mountains legends collected in central Pennsylvania

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"Henry Shoemaker compiled these folk tales set in the Seven Mountains of central Pennsylvania. Shoemaker's stories recall the decline of big game in the region and the exit of the native peoples as the European settlers advanced westward. This collection of tales has been modernized for 21st-century...

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Main Author: Shoemaker, Henry W., 1880-1958 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Mechanicsburg, PA : Catamount Press, 2022.
Edition:First Catamount Press edition.
Subjects:
Folklore > Pennsylvania.
Legends > Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania > Social life and customs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Invocation
  • Forward
  • Explanatory preface
  • In the Seven Mountains
  • Dan Treasterʹs nights
  • The ghost
  • The canoe
  • The Logan brothers
  • Dorman panther
  • The token
  • Pipsissewayʹs pine
  • Uncle Job
  • Swartzell panther
  • A modern Petrarch
  • The thread
  • On the ledge
  • The Indian mound
  • Lynx of Indianville Gap
  • Turned to stone
  • The devilʹs turnip patch
  • Story of the cannon hole
  • The ghostly lights
  • The old fort
  • An episode of '65 flood
  • At the Gate of the Dead.

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