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Author : Benjamin F. G. Kline
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Stemwinders in the Laurel Highlands written by Benjamin F. G. Kline and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin F. G. Kline
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)
Download or read book "Stemwinders" written by Benjamin F. G. Kline and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin F. G. Kline
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book "Stemwinders" in the Laurel Highlands written by Benjamin F. G. Kline and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Logging Railroad Era of Lumbering in Pennsylvania: "Stemwinders" in the Laurel Highlands written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811731423
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Somerset Historical Center written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to western Pennsylvania's rural heritage museum in Somerset that recalls the fervent spirit that settled the Pennsylvania frontier. The site features historic and reproduction buildings and a museum that illustrate the history of agriculture and the evolving technology that continues to advance farming in this region. Pennsylvania Trail of History Guides: Each handbook in this continuing series focuses on one of the historic sites or museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, with a concise history of the subject, detailed tour of the grounds, and full-color photographs.
Author : John Clark
Publisher : William Curry
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Laurel Hill Study written by John Clark and published by William Curry. This book was released on 1975 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Miller
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452027536
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Place Called Hexie written by Samuel Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding the white horse her father gave her as a wedding present , Priscilla and her husband, Samuel Rugg, came to the Turkeyfoot Valley in Somerset County, PA. The year is 1789 and she immediately becomes a person of suspicion to the early German settlers. They tag her as Hex Berge, or witch of the hills. The legend lives on. Move ahead one hundred years to the times of Mary Wyno, the witch from Slovenia whom most of the people in the area held with suspicion. She appears and disappears at will, she can silence horses and her spells become reality. Here in Hexie her spirit lives on.
Author : Mildred Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074582
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807862975
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Transforming the Appalachian Countryside written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.
Author : Mildred A. Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271015675
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred A. Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jennifer Sopko
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239002
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Ligonier Valley Vignettes written by Jennifer Sopko and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secluded between Laurel Mountain and Chestnut Ridge, the Ligonier Valley has been the mountain playground of western Pennsylvania since the nineteenth century. Yet this picturesque retreat was at the tumultuous center of history--during the French and Indian War, Fort Ligonier was key to the British strategy, and in the late nineteenth century, the Ligonier Valley Rail Road helped transform the industry of the region. Author Jennifer Sopko traces the story of the valley and its residents through a series of fascinating vignettes. From the earliest histories to nostalgic reminiscences of the Ligonier Opera House, socials at the Valley Dairy ice cream parlor and bygone days at Idlewild Park, Sopko captures the history and spirit of the Ligonier Valley and its communities.
Author : Robert Currin
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729659
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Lumber Museum written by Robert Currin and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, the forests of northcentral Pennsylvania provided white pine and hemlock timber for much of the United States, and the region boasted two of the world's largest sawmills.
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Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Live Steam written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-11 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Tassin
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811734110
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Ghost Towns written by Susan Tassin and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia -- Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster County.
Author : Ronald E. Ostman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271084588
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers written by Ronald E. Ostman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers, Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell draw on the stunning documentary photography of William T. Clarke to tell the story of Pennsylvania’s lumber heyday, a time when loggers serving the needs of a rapidly growing and globalizing country forever altered the dense forests of the state’s northern tier. Discovered in a shed in upstate New York and a barn in Pennsylvania after decades of obscurity, Clarke’s photographs offer an unprecedented view of the logging, lumbering, and wood industries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show the great forests in the process of coming down and the trains that hauled away the felled trees and trimmed logs. And they show the workers—cruisers, jobbers, skidders, teamsters, carpenters, swampers, wood hicks, and bark peelers—their camps and workplaces, their families, their communities. The work was demanding and dangerous; the work sites and housing were unsanitary and unsavory. The changes the newly industrialized logging business wrought were immensely important to the nation’s growth at the same time that they were fantastically—and tragically—transformative of the landscape. An extraordinary look at a little-known photographer’s work and the people and industry he documented, this book reveals, in sharp detail, the history of the third phase of lumber in America.
Author : Ronald Lieberman
Publisher : Family Album, Abaa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Keystone Tercentenary written by Ronald Lieberman and published by Family Album, Abaa. This book was released on 1983 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Koch
Publisher : Denver : World Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steam & Thunder in the Timber written by Michael Koch and published by Denver : World Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
