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uplo-10833-m-15-97802711010570301Ubiquity Press1597802711010570610.1515/978027110105701internal-reference10833DGE20100201Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/m/10.1515/97802711010571A01Henry W. ShoemakerHenry W.ShoemakerHenry W. Shoemaker (1880–1958) was the author of more than twenty volumes of popular Pennsylvania literary folklore and numerous narratives about Pennsylvania’s disappearing wildlife during the first half of the twentieth century. He also served as Pennsylvania’s first state folklorist from 1948 to 1956.01eng44023User DefinedHistory23User DefinedTopics in History23User DefinedGlobal History12Germany12images12destruction12photographs12folklore12logging12wildlife12Black Forest12souvenirs12Northen Pennsylvania12Shoemaker12lumbermen12Schwarzwald12legend12William T. Clarke10HIS03700093NHB01010302<p><i>Black Forest Souvenirs</i> was inspired by Henry Shoemaker’s early experience in the Black Forest of Germany and the mystical draw of its vast expanse of hemlocks, spruces, and pines interspersed with lumbermen and roaming wildlife. On trips to Clinton, Potter, McKean, and Lycoming Counties in Pennsylvania between 1899 and 1902, Shoemaker discovered forests still intact, evoking the romantic ideal of the German Schwarzwald. However, upon returning to the mountains five years later, he found these forests desolated by the logging industry, practically a ruin—a vision far from the romanticized wilderness he had encountered early in life. This destruction inspired Shoemaker to attempt to preserve the region’s folklore, recording stories and tales told by elderly residents of the area. Traversing the line between fact and fiction, <i>Black Forest Souvenirs</i> reveals a pristine landscape preserved in the minds of its people.</p><p>This collection of legends from the northern regions of the state was originally printed by the Bright-Faust Printing Company in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1914 and includes photographs by William T. Clarke.</p><p>Funded by: Penn State University Libraries</p>0202<p><i>Black Forest Souvenirs</i> was inspired by Henry Shoemaker’s early experience in the Black Forest of Germany and the mystical draw of its vast expanse of hemlocks, spruces, and pines interspersed with lumbermen and roaming wildlife. On trips to Clinton, Potter, McKean, and Lycoming Counties in Pennsylvania between 1899 and 1902, Shoemaker discovered forests still intact, evoking the romantic ideal of the German Schwarzwald. However, upon returning to the mountains five years later, he found these forests desolated by the logging industry, practically a ruin—a vision far from the romanticized wilderness he had encountered early in life. This destruction inspired Shoemaker to attempt to preserve the region’s folklore, recording stories and tales told by elderly residents of the area. Traversing the line between fact and fiction, <i>Black Forest Souvenirs</i> reveals a pristine landscape preserved in the minds of its people.</p><p>This collection of legends from the northern regions of the state was originally printed by the Bright-Faust Printing Company in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1914 and includes photographs by William T. Clarke.</p>04Frontmatter EXPLANATORY PREFACE I. JOHN DECKER'S ELK. (A Black Forest Souvenir.) II. WHY THE SENECAS WOULD NOT EAT TROUT. ( A Story of the Coudersport Pike.) III. YOUNG WOMAN'S CREEK. (The Story of a Mountain Stream.) IV. CONQUERING FATE. (A Story of the Panther Caves.) V. IN THE RAFTERS. (A Tale of the Mountaineers' Conscience.) VI. THE WINTER OF THE WOLVES. ( A Story of Windfall Run.) VII. THE THREE RIVERS. (A Legend of Potter County.) VIII. A STORY OF REGINA. (Another Fragment of the Popular Legend) IX. THE DEATH SHOUT. (A Story of the Senecas.) X. THE HEALING SPRING. (A Story of Quinn's Run.) XI. A HUNTER'S DAUGHTER. (A Story of Lewis' Run.) XII. THE MOMENT THE LIGHTS WERE LIT. (A Romance of the Mountains.) XIII. HUGH MITCHELTREE. (A Story of the Genesee Fork). XIV. GEORGE SHOVER'S PANTHER. (A Story of Little Miller Run.) XV. THE TRAMPER. (The Story of a Famous Lost Boy.) XVI. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. (Story of the Packet-Boat Wolf.) XVII. THE CURSED WOODS. (A Legend of One of Nature's Blights.) XVIII. THE SCREAMING SKULL. (A Ghost Story of the Pike.) INDEX46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)040301https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-uplo/files/media/cover_images/21913c8b-c9a3-4164-9e21-9264d3dd00f2.jpgPenn State University Press01Penn State University Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://uplopen.com02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://uplopen.com/books/m/10.1515/9780271101057University Park, PA, USA0420250514