Susquehanna Legends

by Henry W Shoemaker, P J Piccirillo (Foreword by)

Overview

Henry Shoemaker compiled these legendary tales set in the Endless Mountains of western and central Pennsylvania. Shoemaker's tales recall the transition of the landscape from forest to industrial logging and the decline of the native peoples as the European settlers advanced westward. This collection of tales has been modernized for 21st-century audiences but maintains the charm, wit, and suspense of the originals.

• 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 Weathervanes
• Elphe Soden
• The White Deer

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620068342
Publisher:	Catamount Press
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Born into wealth and raised in New York City, Henry Shoemaker (1880-1958) spent his summers at the family estate in McElhattan, PA, and there fell in love with the state's mountains and people. During a long and varied career, Shoemaker wrote hundreds of articles and books on the disappearing Pennsylvania wilderness and its people and culture. A founder of the Pennsylvania Folklore Society, he also served as the Commonwealth's first state folklorist from 1946 to 1958.

PJ Piccirillo's stories and articles have appeared widely. He is the author of the novel Heartwood and has twice won the Appalachian Writers Association Award for Short Fiction. He lives with his wife and three sons in north-central Pennsylvania, which has always been home.