Research Catalog

Title

The Allegheny River : watershed of the nation / photographs by Jim Schafer : text by Mike Sajna.

Author

Schafer, Jim.

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1992.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Sajna, Mike.

Description

xii, 304 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Of all the rivers in the country, few can claim as long, diverse, and colorful a history as the Allegheny. Jim Schafer and Mike Sajna take us on a trip from its mouth to its headwaters, charting the Allegheny River's history from its creation during the Ice Age to the present. Using historical records and accounts, interviews, personal experiences, and over 150 contemporary and historical photographs, Schafer and Sajna vividly portray the mighty Allegheny." "The Allegheny played a key role in the French and Indian War, and after the Revolution it was the main thoroughfare for immigrants heading west to settle America from Ohio to the Northwest Territory, thus earning Pittsburgh the title "Gateway to the West." Part of the river's story includes its role in the Industrial Revolution, for it once bore the environmental scars of unrestricted industrialization. Today it has rebounded to become one of the best fisheries in the state and home to a diverse collection of flora and fauna, including several endangered species. It is also now one of the most heavily used rivers for recreation in the country." "Throughout the text, Sajna weaves vignettes with the famous figures and interesting characters who have encountered the river, from George Washington, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Andrew Carnegie, to Seneca Chief Cornplanter, John Wilkes Booth, "Johnny Appleseed," and Rachel Carson. He also interviews contemporary people who live, work, or take inspiration from the river, including a woodcarver, a riverboat captain, and vacationers and naturalists. Through words and photographs, Schafer and Sajna depict the ever-changing face of the river."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) > Description and travel
• Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• "A Keystone book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Generations -- Point of the Forks -- City lights -- High steel and slackwater -- Crowd pleaser -- River of mighty dreams -- Waters of transition -- Sweet tract of land -- River running -- Oildorado -- Adventures, idealists, and endangered species -- Where they gobble -- In another country -- Along the lazy river -- God's country.

ISBN

0271008369 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91043332^

OCLC

24906490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library