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Myths, legends, lore : Central New York & the Finger Lakes
Title:
Myths, legends, lore : Central New York & the Finger Lakes
Author:
Zimmer, Melanie.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Iroquois stories -- The creation story -- The giant bear and the Big Dipper -- The formation of the Finger Lakes -- The story of the standing stone -- Hiawatha and the Peacemaker -- Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha -- The martyrdom of three Jesuits -- The strange story of Eleazer Williams, the Dauphin of France -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the Oneida Indians -- Part II: The Revolutionary War period -- Chief Skenandoah -- Polly Cooper at Valley Forge -- A transatlantic love story -- Part III: The Erie Canal -- Stories of Red McCarthy -- The Empeyville frog -- Snow dye -- The dry canal -- Sig Sautelle, the circus man -- A whale of a tale -- Part IV: Religious movements and utopia -- A miracle in Palmyra -- The Oneida Community -- Part V: Abolitionists, underground railroad conductors, and suffragists -- The scythe tree -- The Jerry rescue -- Harriet Tubman -- Gerrit Smith -- Elizabeth Smith Miller and the story of her bloomers -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Bible -- Part VI: Leprechauns, baseball, the chocolate train, and a stone giant -- Thomas Hastings's heavenly music -- The Cardiff giant -- Baseball, the all-American sport -- The great chocolate wreck -- The origin of the spotted cow -- Cat tales -- Small wonder -- George "Bill" Bailey, the American mummy -- The guardian angel -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
9781596294646
Format :
Book