| More Allegheny Episodes: Legends and Traditions, Old and New, Gathered Among the Pennsylvania Mountains Contributor(s): Shoemaker, Henry W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0271022809 ISBN-13: 9780271022802 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $30.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2007 Annotation: The Penn State University Press is pleased to introduce Metalmark Books, a joint imprint of the Press and the University Libraries at Penn State. Books published under this imprint are selected from the collections of the University Libraries. They may be viewed online or ordered as print-on-demand paperbacks. Initially, books published under the Metalmark imprint will be chosen from the Libraries extensive Pennsylvania holdings. Over time, the scope will broaden to include other significant out-of-print titles. These five Metalmark reprints preserve and make available once again some of the early writing of folklorist Henry W. Shomaker. He authored hundreds of pamphlets and books on nature, history, and folklore. He was publisher of several influential newspapers in Pennsylvania, including the Altoona Tribune and the Reading Eagle. He became the first state folklorist in America, one of the first chairs of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and an influential member of the State Forest Commission and the State Geographic Board. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Mountains |
| Dewey: 301 |
| Series: Metalmark |
| Physical Information: 1.29" H x 5" W x 8" (1.37 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Published in 1924, More Allegheny Episodes is the last of twelve volumes in Henry Shoemaker's Pennsylvania Folklore Series, published during the first three decades of the twentieth century. This volume is a companion and sequel to the author's 1922 Allegheny Episodes, containing more stories compiled from across Central and Western Pennsylvania. This collection includes twenty-eight tales recounted in Shoemaker's typical literary style. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shoemaker, Henry W.: - Henry W. Shoemaker (1880-1958) was the author of more than twenty volumes of popular Pennsylvania literary folklore and numerous narrative volumes about Pennsylvania's disappearing wildlife during the first half of the twentieth century. He also served as Pennsylvania's first State Folklorist from 1948 to 1956. |