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Pennsylvania Deer and Their Horns, published in 1915, stands alongside a number of Shoemakers volumes, such as Wolf Days in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Lion or Panther, dedicated to telling the tales of vanishing or extinct Pennsylvania wildlife...

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Published in 1916, this illustrated edition of Penns Grandest Cavern begins with several legends of Penns Cave and the surrounding area, followed by a description and history, all compiled and written by Henry W. Shoemaker. His description of the ...

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This Metalmark volume combines two of Henry W. Shoemakers pamphlets, both published by Shoemakers Times Tribune Co., which also published his newspaper, the Altoona Tribune. Pennsylvania Lion or Panther, published in 1914, provides a narrative loo...

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Published in 1924, More Allegheny Episodes is the last of twelve volumes in Henry Shoemakers Pennsylvania Folklore Series, published during the first three decades of the twentieth century. This volume is a companion and sequel to the authors 1922...

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Henry W. Shoemaker (18801958) was known for his deep love for the wilderness and native cultures of Pennsylvania. The states first official folklorist, he wrote more than twenty books detailing Pennsylvanias modern mythology. Pennsylvania Mountain...

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Allegheny Episodes is the eleventh of twelve volumes in Henry Shoemakers Pennsylvania Folklore Series. Published in 1922years before Shoemakers time as Pennsylvanias first state folkloristAllegheny Episodes includes twenty-five stories written in ...

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Henry W. Shoemaker was already an established writer of Pennsylvanias popular folklore by the time North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy was published in 1919. While much of Shoemakers previous work was literary folklore, this volume comprises his first c...

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Published in 1916, Juniata Memories was Henry W. Shoemakers eighth volume of Pennsylvania folklore. Written in the authors typical literary style, this volume includes twenty-six legends set in Central Pennsylvania and the Juniata Valley. These st...

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Black Forest Souvenirs was inspired by Henry Shoemakers early experience in the Black Forest of Germany and the mystical draw of its vast expanse of hemlocks, spruces, and pines interspersed with lumbermen and roaming wildlife. On trips to Clinton...

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In this 1917 guidebook from the pre-automobile era, Henry Shoemaker breaks from his typical literary-folklore subjects to chronicle the natural and social landscapes of central Pennsylvania. The reader is introduced to the wildlife and the geograp...

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Originally published in 1913 by the Bright Printing Company, In the Seven Mountains belongs to Henry Shoemakers robust corpus of tales and legends based on the folklore of Pennsylvania. This volume presents stories from the Seven Mountains, locate...

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Originally published in 1912 by the Bright Printing Company, The Indian Steps belongs to Henry Shoemakers robust corpus of tales and legends based on the folklore of Pennsylvania. This early Shoemaker collection of literary folklore paints a color...

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Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains in Central Pennsylvania, originally published in 1912 by the Bright Printing Company, was the fourth of Henry Shoemakers many published volumes of fantastical tales about Pennsylvanias folklore and wildlife. Focus...

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Originally published in 1914 by the Tribune Press, Wolf Days in Pennsylvania preserves the fascinating history of Pennsylvanias lost wolves and their hunters, which was already becoming the stuff of folklore and myth during Shoemakers lifetime at ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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