Keystone Tombstones - Volume 1 (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

Description

Joe Farrell and Joe Farley explore the cemeteries (and pubs) of Pennsylvania in search of interesting graves and stories about the interred. Included in this volume:

• William Law Anderson "Golf's Forgotten Legend"
• James Buchanan "Pennsylvania's Only President"
• Pearl Buck "The Good Earth"
• John Burns "The Hero of Gettysburg"
• Simon Cameron "Pennsylvania's Political Kingmaker"
• James Crowley & Harry Stuhldreher "Half the Horsemen"
• Congressman Dan Flood "Dapper Dan"
• Benjamin Franklin "The First American"
• John White Geary "An American Success Story Few Have Heard"
• Frank Gorshin "What Does It All Mean?"
• Zane Grey "Rider of the Purple Sage"
• Harry Norbert Kalas "That Ball's Outta Here!"
• Mary Jo Kopechne "What If?"
• David L. Lawrence "Pittsburgh's Renaissance Man"
• Lincoln Colored Cemetery "Gone But Not Forgotten"
• Connie Mack "The Tall Tactician"
• Jayne Mansfield "The Blonde Bombshell"
• Vance Criswell McCormick "A Harrisburg Hero"
• George Meade "The Old Snapping Turtle"
• Thomas Mifflin "A Pennsylvania Patriot"
• The Molly Maguires, Black Jack Kehoe and Franklin Gowen
• Gifford Pinchot "Pennsylvania's Forester"
• Bob Prince & Myron Cope "The Voices of Pittsburgh"
• General John Fulton Reynolds "A True American Hero"
• Frank Rizzo "The Cop That Would Be King"
• Jim Thorpe "The Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century"
• Bill Tilden "Big Bill"
• Ginnie Wade "A Tragic Love Story"
• Andy Warhol "The Pope of Pop"
• Fred Waring "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing"

... and some very Unusual Tombstones