Research Catalog

Title

Susquehanna legends : collected in central Pennsylvania / by Henry W. Shoemaker ; illustrated.

Author

Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton), 1880-

Publication

Reading, Pennsylvania : Published by the Bright Printing Company, 1913.

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Additional Authors

• Bright Printing Company. pbl
• Clarke, W. T.
• McCormick, Katherine H. (Katherine Hood), 1882-1960,
• McCormick, Katherine H. (Katherine Hood), 1882-1960.
• Miller, Fred C.
• Swope, H. W.

Description

[iii]-xvii, [18]-389, [7] p. (first 4 p. and last 5 p. blank), [9] leaves of plates : ill.; 19 cm.

Series Statement

[His Pennsylvania folklore series]

Subject

• Pennsylvania > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Susquehanna River Valley > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Fiction.

Note

• "Cover designs, head-pieces and tail-pieces by Miss Katharine McCormick, Philadelphia, Pa."--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• "By the same author": p. [xi].

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Teedyuscung's face -- The man who loved a fairy -- In the foothills -- Killy, Killy, Killy -- Eleve -- Spiritually dead -- One hour of happiness -- The play girl -- A frontiersman's diary -- The escape -- The water witch -- The lonely ghost -- The horse-beater -- Queen Elizabeth -- The headless man -- His rival's ghost -- Canoe place -- Golden hour in the camp -- The weather-vanes -- Elphe Soden -- The white deer.
• Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 49, 81, 129, 233, 273, 305, 337 and 385, signed by Fred C. Miller, H.W. Swope, and W.T. Clarke. Illustrations on p. xiii, [18] and [388]. Ornamented initials.

LCCN

^^^13016336^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library