| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The bear tree and other tales -- The sunken canoe and the legend of the Indian lovers -- Former slave, Revolutionary War soldier who cooked for General Washington settled in Cazenovia -- In the shadow of abolition : the unknown lives of the Johnson family, slaves to Cazenovia's founding father -- Jonathan Forman : with Washington throughout the Revolutionary War -- 1816 : the year without a summer -- First grammar book of Ojibwe language written and published in Cazenovia -- A history of heartbreak : who was 'Crazy Luce'? -- Susan Blow, the mother of American kindergarten, and her time in Cazenovia -- William J. Hough helped create the Smithsonian Institution -- Elizabeth Smith Miller, the original "bloomer" -- The story of William Madge, Cazenovian who escaped from rebel prison during the Civil War -- The men behind the famous Cazenovia G.A.R. photograph -- Former Cazenovia resident, seminary president had historic connections to Abraham Lincoln -- Lucia Zora Card, "the bravest woman in the world" -- When President Cleveland came to Cazenovia -- The Cazenovia mummy, Robert Hubbard, and generations of interest -- Theodore Roosevelt's 1900 campaign whistle stop in Cazenovia -- A family of patriots : the Kent brothers and their World War I service -- "Nothing further remains but our duty" : Cecil Donovan's letters from the Western Front -- Circus man Jim Fitch a colorful Cazenovia character -- One of the great American novels written by a Cazenovia high school teacher |
| Summary |
""The Bear Tree and Other Stories from Cazenovia's History" examines and illuminates the unknown, unheralded, inaccurately told, and long-forgotten stories of Cazenovia, New York"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021) |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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| SUBJECT |
Cazenovia (N.Y.) -- History -- Anecdotes
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Cazenovia (N.Y.) -- Biography
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- Cazenovia
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Emerson, Jason, 1975- author.
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| LC no. |
2021002257 |
| ISBN |
9780815655428 |
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0815655428 |
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