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McKean County: Where the Gold is Green

Posted by Terry Hess on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off The great gold and silver rushes of the late nineteenth century to places such as the Black Hills, Colorado, Arizona, California and Alaska have long been hailed in story and song for their excitement, riches and heartbreak. But, the rush for “green gold” to McKean County during the same century was equally or more exciting. First, there were the forests – immense forests of...
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Cameron County: Where Legends are Legion

Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Tucked high away in Pennsylvania’s once foreboding northern tier, the little county called Cameron was a segment of the vast wilderness known for many years as the Commonwealth’s last frontier. In fact, the county was not formally established until 1860, the sixty-sixth of the sixty-seven counties apportioned and organized by the state legislature. Actual settlement of Cameron...
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Tom Mix (1880-1940)

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off Even before Hollywood producers glamorized the silver screen image of the American cowboy, huge audiences were mesmerized by touring cowboy shows, the most popular of which was William F. (“Buffalo Bill”) Cody (1846-1917) and his Wild West Show, which traveled the country for more than thirty years, from 1883 to 1916. With authentic Native Americans, skilled riders, sharpshooters,...
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Bucktail Monument, Driftwood, PA.

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off This sounds as if the Bucktails were coming don’t it?” asked an unknown writer to Miss Bessie McPhee of Pittsburgh in a postcard mailed on April 6, 1908, at Driftwood, the second — and last — incorporated borough in Cameron County. Today a community of one hundred residents, Driftwood was incorporated as a borough in 1872; the county seat, Emporium, was incorporated in 1864. The postcard bears a...
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