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Profiles from the Susquehanna Valley : past and present vignettes of its people, times, and towns / [by] Paul B. Beers.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/ Nl F157.S8 B43
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beers, Paul B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Susquehanna River Valley--History.
- Susquehanna River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Stackpole Books [1973]
- Contents:
- Old Front Street: gracious living, elms, and superbourgeois
- Sin city: godliness and gaiety
- Black Harrisburg: from Hercules to manhood
- Weather worries: most like it hot
- The Great Flood of '72: a drenching that became a disaster
- Camp Hill, Camp Hill: it's a wonderful town
- Good old Steelton: little mill town with a big name
- Perry County: far from the madding crowd
- Railroading, canaling and dredging: ways of life in days gone by
- Spanning the Susquehanna: from Old Camelback to interstates
- The horse set: enthusiastic equestrians
- Annals of crime: three famous murder cases
- Education: emphasis replaces apathy
- Capitol statuary: Barnard and Republican politicos
- Les beaux arts: painting and crafts thrive
- Harrisburg theater: its death greatly exaggerated
- Music, music, music: stirring the Harrisburg soul
- Central Pennsylvania politics: regularity and republicanism
- The Harrises: pioneer and founder
- The irascible Maclay: commoner with vision
- The Whig convention: Harrison, Tyler, and Harrisburg too
- Capitol graft: per foot and by the pound
- Simon Cameron: his gray eminence
- J. Donald Cameron: the forgotten Cameron
- Vance McCormick: the all-American
- Ed Beidleman: gubernatorial hopeful
- Taylor-made: the master politician
- Senator George N. Wade: political broker from the West Shore
- Simon Girty: snarling renegade
- The legendary Lewis the Robber: the noblest highwayman
- Lincoln in central Pennsylvania: as president-elect, at Gettysburg, a martyr
- The tinkerer of Eberly's Mill: Dan Drawbaugh and the telephone
- Silas Comfort Swallow: warrior against sin and drink
- Chaucer of Carlisle to Carbondale: John O'Hara covered the territory
- The trip John F. Kennedy should have made: choose Dallas instead of Gettysburg.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Beers, Paul B. Profiles from the Susquehanna Valley: past and present vignettes of its people, times, and towns.
- ISBN:
- 0811713806
- 9780811713801
- OCLC:
- 572921
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