AuthorShoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton), b. 1880.
TitleSouth Mountain sketches : folk tales and legends collected in the mountains of southern Pennsylvania / by Henry W. Shoemaker ...
PublishedAltoona, Pennsylvania : Published by Times Tribune Company, 1920.
Description332, [2] p. (first 2 p. and last 2 p. blank), [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
General NotePhotographic frontispiece, photographic plates facing p. 24, 36, 56, 78, 104, 118, 172, 184, 196, 228, 258, 272, 286, 290, 316, 328 and illustrations on p. [12], 23, 40, 54, 66, 80, 96, 109, 135, 147, 163, 175, 186, 212, 227, 257, 271, 299 and 321, some signed by K.M.
Formatted NoteContents: Aunt Tilly Henry's vision -- There were giants -- Love beyond the grave -- Conestoga -- The white lady of Pomfret Castle -- The lost valley -- Whipporwill's shoes -- The star of the glen -- Ghosts of the living -- Fire for the ghosts -- The proof of Ossian -- A ghost flower -- The wolf's glen -- The blue girl -- The black cat at Peter Allen's -- The squaw man -- Woodpecker's head -- The timber line -- The scalp bounty -- Mary Casselman, redemptioner -- The north bastion -- The hunter's moon -- The lion's garden -- The man of peace.
SubjectsFolklore -- Pennsylvania.
Legends -- Pennsylvania.
OrganizationsTimes Tribune Publishing Co.
LC Card Number20-18663
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: PZ 3 S559S
mq154785: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 91600]
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