ISBN10: 0976056348, ISBN13: 9780976056348, [publisher: Mechling Bookbindery] Hardcover First Edition Hardback copyright 2006; first edition; contains fascinating anecdotes about Pennsylvania history, including the history of actor Jimmy Stewart's family in Indiana, Pa., Biddle's ill-fated escape from the Allegheny County Jail, the Johnstown Flood, the Evelyn Nesbit-Harry Thaw scandal, and many more; 276 clean pages B-27.
[beaver falls, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
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Mechling Bookbindery, Date: 2006 Hard cover. Fine. Fine. Signed by author. New copy, has a tiny bit of shelf wear on edges. Number 305 of 1, 000 limited numbered copies. Signed on the title page by the author. Jimmy Stewart; James Smith-French & Indian War captive; Mary Jemison-frontier Indian captive who became 'White Woman of the Genesee'; Benjamin Franklin's inventions; Charles Lindbergh's visits to the Connellsville area via Mac's Barbecue and Air Field, precursor to the Connellsville airport; the Overholt family's distilleries at Broadford and West Overton, now a working museum, incl. the exploits of the most famous son, Henry Clay Frick; Carnegie and Frick, the Pinkerton police, the Homestead strike and the Robber Baron era; the Molly Maguires of Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe, PA, and the unremovable handprint of Alexander Campbell on the wall of cell seventeen; Katherine (Kate) Dietrich Soffel, wife of the warden of Allegheny County Jail, and Ed and Jack Biddle's prison escape; Haunted locations in Gettysburg, and the Samuel Warden mansion in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co. PA; the athlete Jim Thorpe, for whom the town in PA was named; the great Johnstown Flood of 1889; Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and Elmhurst, her Cambria Co. country estate; Florence Shutsy-Reynolds, the only WASP-Women Airforce Service Pilots-from Fayette County; biographies of David McCullough-PA historian and author, Helen Crosby (Warmuth) Alt-p ...