MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02361cam a22003138a 4500
001 2010012975
003 DLC
005 20100810111002.0
008 100324s2010 scu b 000 0deng
010 $a 2010012975
020 $a9781596299214
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us-de$an-us-md$an-us-va
050 00 $aF187.E2$bH29 2010
082 00 $a398.209752/1$222
100 1 $aHealey, David.
245 10 $aDelmarva legends & lore /$cDavid Healey.
246 3 $aDelmarva legends and lore
260 $aCharleston, SC :$bHistory Press,$c2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $apt. 1. Colonial Delmarva -- Augustine Herman : explorer and mapmaker -- Chestertown Tea Party -- How Whorekill and Murderkill got their names -- Lost houses of Delmarva -- William Claiborne : Chesapeake Bay's first pirate -- Baltimore versus Charlestown -- The original Sotweed factor -- Bloody Delmarva : English, Swedes, Dutch, and Native Americans in conflict -- Debtors' prisons -- pt. 2. War of 1812 -- The town that fooled the British -- Sir Peter Parker's fateful Letter -- Kitty Knight -- The battle fought after war's end -- pt. 3. Divided Delmarva : the Civil War era -- Thomas McCreary : notorious slave catcher and kidnapper -- Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad -- Clara Gunby Huffington : spy for the Confederacy -- Lincoln's "My dear lady" -- Caveman of the Civil War -- pt. 4. Disasters, shipwrecks, and mayhem -- The great gale of 1878 and the sinking of the Express -- The rise and fall of the peach barons -- Delaware's Coin Beach -- Cannibals on Assateague -- Lightning causes airline crash -- pt. 5. Monsters and myths -- Chessie -- Oyster wars -- James Michener's Chesapeake and the house full of canned fruit -- The horses that Swam Ashore -- pt. 6. Ghosts, murders, and mysteries -- Haunted historical society -- The mysterious Cosden murders -- Andrew Jackson's duelist meets his match -- Searching for Blackbeard's treasure -- The drowned town.
651 0 $aDelmarva Peninsula$xHistory$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aDelmarva Peninsula$xHistory, Local$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aDelmarva Peninsula$vBiography$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aDelmarva Peninsula$xSocial life and customs$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aLegends$zDelmarva Peninsula.
650 0 $aFolklore$zDelmarva Peninsula.