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

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

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

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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 19...

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Henry W. Shoemaker (1880-1958) was known for his deep love for the wilderness and native cultures of Pennsylvania. The state's first official folklorist, he wrote more than twenty books detailing Pennsylvania's modern mythology. Pennsylvania Mount...

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Allegheny Episodes is the eleventh of twelve volumes in Henry Shoemaker's Pennsylvania Folklore Series. Published in 1922-years before Shoemaker's time as Pennsylvania's first state folklorist-Allegheny Episodes includes twenty-five stories writte...

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

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Black Forest Souvenirs was inspired by Henry Shoemaker's 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 Clinto...

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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 Shoemaker's robust corpus of tales and legends based on the folklore of Pennsylvania. This volume presents stories from the Seven Mountains, locat...

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

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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 Shoemaker's many published volumes of fantastical tales about Pennsylvania's folklore and wildlife. Foc...

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

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