Around Uniontown
Around Uniontown

Author: Victoria Dutko Leonelli

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738511993

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Once scattered with frontier forts and Native American paths, Uniontown has changed considerably since Henry Beeson, a Virginia Quaker, offered fifty-four lots for sale on July 4, 1776. Around Uniontown captures this history with nearly two hundred vintage images culled from personal collections and the Uniontown Public Library's archives. In these pages, revisit 1896, when Uniontown had its greatest patriotic festivity. View beautiful tree-lined streets with the magnificent homes of coal barons. Visit the "patch towns," and meet the people who lived and worked during the booming coal and coke era. Witness the sensational Polly Williams murder trial, and learn about some of the unique individuals who have called Uniontown home, such as Gen. George C. Marshall, David Blythe, and "Crazy Billy."

Working Detroit
Working Detroit

Author: Steve Babson

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0814345093

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The book concludes with an examination of the present day crisis facing the labor movement.

Life in a Jar
Life in a Jar

Author: H. Jack Mayer

Publisher: Long Trail Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 098411131X

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Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's heroism.

Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania
Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania

Author: Thomas White

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1614236097

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Violent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is. The region played reluctant host to the likes of the infamous Biddle Boys, who escaped Allegheny County Jail by romancing the warden's wife, and the Cooley Gang, which held Fayette County in its violent grip at the close of the nineteenth century. Then there was Pennsylvania's own Bonnie and Clyde--Irene and Glenn--whose murderous misadventures earned the "trigger blonde" and her beau the electric chair in 1931. From the perilous train tracks of Erie to the gritty streets of Pittsburgh, authors Thomas White and Michael Hassett trace the dark history of the crooks, murderers and outlaws who both terrorized and fascinated the citizenry of western Pennsylvania.