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Allegheny Episodes: Folk Lore and Legends Collected in Northern and Western Pennsylvania, Vol XI. Pennsylvania Folk Lore Series

By Henry Wharton Shoemaker

2019-06-20 17:44:26

“The country east of the Mississippi was inhabited by a very powerful nation. * * * Those people called themselves Alligewi. * * * The Allegheny River and Mountains have been named after them. * * * The Lenni-Lenape still call the river Alligewi Si ... Read more
“The country east of the Mississippi was inhabited by a very powerful nation. * * * Those people called themselves Alligewi. * * * The Allegheny River and Mountains have been named after them. * * * The Lenni-Lenape still call the river Alligewi Sipu, the river of the Alligewi, but it is generally known by its Iroquois name–Ohe-Yu–which the French had literally translated into La Belle Riviere, The Beautiful River, though a branch of it retains the ancient name Allegheny.” –John Heckewelder. Less

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File size3723.351 KB
Print pages339
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-3337464578
Henry Wharton Shoemaker (February 24, 1880 – July 14, 1958)[1][2] was a prominent American folklorist, historian, diplomat, writer, publisher, and conservationist. Shoemaker was born in New York ...

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