The bear tree and other stories from Cazenovia's history /

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Author / Creator:Barnes, Erica, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021.
©2021
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13542903
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Other authors / contributors:Emerson, Jason, 1975- author.
ISBN:9780815655428
0815655428
9780815637172
9780815611325
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021).
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"--
Other form:Print version: Barnes, Erica. Bear tree and other stories from Cazenovia's history. First edition. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021 9780815637172
Table of 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.