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Ricketts' circus in Lancaster

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1928

Ricketts' Circus in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER J OHN BILL RICKETTS, a Scotch equestrian, who had learned many of his astounding acts when he was associated with the Blackfriars' Bridge circus, London, came to Philadelphia in 1792, and erected a building for a riding school at the south

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1928

Physical Description: 134-135 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 9 & 10

Subjects: Ricketts, John Bill.; Circus - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 32, number 9/10 (1928), p. 134-135Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.32

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Me and Buffalo Bill

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Author: Roath, John R.

Date of Publication: 1995.

, awakening, hung over, beneath a covered wagon, he knew immediately that there was something special about this man. Says Buffalo Bill biographer John Burke of the moment, "If Buntline was a writer in search of a hero, Cody was a hero in search of a role." He was soon to find that role in the employ of the

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Responsibility: by John R. Roath.

Author: Roath, John R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: [66]-71 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 97, no. 2

Subjects: Buffalo Bill, - 1846-1917.; Roath, John R. - Childhood and youth.; Circus - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 97, number 2 (1995), p. 66-71Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.97

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Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

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Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Responsibility: edited by Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute.

ISBN: 0807847348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: x, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Historic New Orleans Collection."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-382) and index.

Contents: Introduction : on the connection of frontiers / Andrew R.L. Cayton and Fredrika J. Teute -- Shamokin, "the very seat of the Prince of darkness": unsettling the early American frontier / James H. Merrell -- Metaphor, meaning, and misunderstanding : language and power on the Pennsylvania frontier / Jane T. Merritt -- Black "go-betweens" and the mutability of "race," status, and identity on New York's pre-revolutionary frontier / William B. Hart -- "Insidious friends" : gift giving and the Cherokee-British alliance in the Seven Years' War / Gregory Evans Dowd --"Domestick ... quiet being broke" : gender conflict among Creek Indians in the eighteenth century / Claudio Saunt -- Pigs and hunters : "rights in the woods" on the trans-Appalachian frontier / Stephen Aron -- Distinctions and partitions amongst us : identity and interaction in the revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins -- "Noble actors" upon "the theatre of honour" : power and civility in the Treaty of Greenville / Andrew R.L. Cayton -- To live among us : accommodation, gender, and conflict in the Western Great Lakes region, 1760-1832 / Lucy Eldersveld Murphy -- "More motley than Mackinaw" : from ethnic mixing to ethnic cleansing on the frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783-1833 / John Mack Faragher -- Remembering American frontiers : King Philip's War and the American imagination / Jill Lepore.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - United States.; Acculturation - United States; Indians of North America; Indians, Treatment of - United States; Frontier and pioneer life - United States - Congresses.; Acculturation - United States - Congresses.; Indians of North America - Congresses.; United States - Territorial expansion.; United States - Territorial expansion - Congresses.

Additional Author: Cayton, Andrew R. L.; Teute, Fredrika J.

Additional Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.221 C759

Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

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Author: Merrell, James Hart,

Date of Publication: 2000, c1999.

Call Number: 974.802 M568

Alternate Title: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

Responsibility: James H. Merrell.

ISBN: 0393046761

Author: Merrell, James Hart,

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Norton,

Date of Publication: 2000, c1999.

Physical Description: 463 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Notes: "1st pub. as a Norton paperback 2000"--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-438) and index.

Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.; Pioneers - Pennsylvania; Negotiation - Pennsylvania; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania; Intercultural communication - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802 M568

Emigrants in chains : a social history of forced emigration to the Americas of felons, destitute children, political and religious non-conformists, vagabonds, beggars and other undesirables, 1607-1776

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Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson.

Date of Publication: c1992.

Call Number: 364.68 L688

Responsibility: Peter Wilson Coldham.

ISBN: 0806313293 :

Author: Coldham, Peter Wilson.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication: c1992.

Physical Description: 188 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188).

Subjects: Prisoners, Transportation of - England; Prisoners, Transportation of - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 364.68 L688

Lancaster County : the red rose of Pennsylvania

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Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L863L; 974.815 LACO L863La

Responsibility: John Ward Willson Loose ; "Partners in Progress" by Gary G. Martin and Donald L. Collins.

ISBN: 1884166032 :

Author: Loose, John Ward Willson.

Place of Publication: Canoga Park, CA

Publisher: CCA Publications,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: [6], 158 p.: ill., some col. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Chamber of Commerce (Lancaster, Pa.).; Lancaster County Historical Society (Lancaster, Pa.).; Lancasater Malleable Castings, Co. (Lancaster, Pa.).; J. Walter Miller Company (Lancaster, Pa.).; Raub Supply Company (Lancaster, Pa.).; Alumax Mill Products (Lancaster, Pa.).; High Industries, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).; Federal-Mogul Corporation (Lancaster, Pa.).; Serta Mattress Company (Lancaster, Pa.).; Cassey Engineering (Salunga, Pa.).; Lancaster Labratories (Lancaster, Pa.).; Ford New Holland (New Holland, Pa.).; Liberty Sign and Can Company (Lancastaear, Pa.).; J. L. Clark, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).; Simon Ladder Towers, Inc. (Leola, Pa.).; Lancaster Paint and Glass (Lancaster, Pa. ).; Wickersham Construction and Engineering, Inc. (Lancaster, Pa.).; SICO Company (Mt. Joy, Pa.).; Denver and Ephrata Telephone and Telegraph Company (Pa.).; Bank of Lancaster County (Pa.).; Fulton Bank (Lancaster, Pa).; CoreStates Hamilton Bank (Lancaster, Pa.); Dauphin Deposit Bank (Pa.); Ross, Buehler, Falk and Company (Pa.).; Community Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.).; Lancaster General Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.).; St. Joseph Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.); Corporate Healthcare Strategies, Inc. (Pa.); Warner-Lambert Company (Pa.).; Lancasater Bible College (Lancaster, Pa.).; Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.).; Acorn Press (Pa.).; Lancaster Newspapers (Lancaster, Pa.).; John Cope's Food Products (Pa.).; Dutch Gold Honey (Pa.).; Kellogg Company (Pa.).; Stauffers of Kissel Hill (Pa.).; Hammond Pretzel Bakery (Lancaster, Pa.).; Zimmerman Foods (Pa.).; Turkey Hill Dairy (Pa.).; Wilbur Chocolate Company (Lititz, Pa.); Groff's Farm Restaurant (Pa.).; Hotel Brunswick (Lancaster, Pa.).; Eden Resort Inn (Lancaster, Pa.).; Bulova Technologies (Lancaster, Pa.); Business enterprises - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Industries - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Description and travel.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 LACO L863L; 974.815 LACO L863La

Deaths reported by Der Libanon Demokrat : a German language newspaper published at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 1832-1864

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Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Date of Publication: Â©1990, 2009.

Call Number: 974.819 H466d

Responsibility: translated and transcribed by Robert A. Heilman.

ISBN: 155613410X; 9781556134104

Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Place of Publication: Bowie, Md

Publisher: Heritage Books,

Physical Description: 130 pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Abstracts.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Genealogy.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; American newspapers.; German Americans.; Registers of births, etc.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Lebanon - Obituaries.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Lebanon - Newspapers.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon - Obituaries.; Abstracts.; Genealogy.

Additional Title: Libanon Demokrat.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 H466d

Grave undertakings : gravestone inscriptions of Old Warwick Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Xakellis, Martha J.

Date of Publication: c1989-

Call Number: 310.35 X1

Responsibility: by Martha J. Xakellis.

ISBN: 155856019X (v. 1); 1558561226 (v. 2); 1558562044 (v. 3)

Author: Xakellis, Martha J.

Place of Publication: Apollo, PA

Publisher: Closson Press,

Date of Publication: c1989-

Physical Description: v. <1-4 > : ill. ; 28 cm.

Contents: v. 1. Elizabeth Township -- v. 2. Warwick Township -- v. 3. Clay township -- v.4. Penn Township -- v. 5. Lititz Borough.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Warwick (Lancaster County : Township); Inscriptions - Pennsylvania - Elizabeth (Lancaster County : Township); Registers of births, etc. - Pennyslania; Cemeteries - Pennsylvania - Lititz.; Warwick (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Elizabeth (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Clay (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy.; Lititz (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Reference

Call Number: 310.35 X1

Monocacy and Catoctin

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Date of Publication: c1985-1994.

Call Number: 975.2 S334

Responsibility: C.E. Schildknecht, editor.

Place of Publication: [Shippensburg, Pa

Publisher: Beidel Print. House],

Date of Publication: c1985-1994.

Physical Description: 3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Vol. 2-3 have imprint: Westminster, Md. : Family Line Publications.; Maps on lining papers.; LCHS has vols. 1 and 2.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: v. 1. Some early settlers of Frederick and Carroll Counties, MD and Adams County County, PA, also descendants c. 1725-1985 -- v. 2. Some settlers of western Maryland and adjacent Pennsylvania, and their descendants, 1725-1988 -- v. 3. Additions and corrections to the History of Frederick County, Maryland by T.J.C. Williams and Folger McKinsey, 1910.

Subjects: Registers of births, etc. - Maryland - Frederick County.; Registers of births, etc. - Maryland - Carroll County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Adams County.; Frederick County (Md.) - Genealogy.; Carroll County (Md.) - Genealogy.; Adams County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Schildknecht, Calvin E.; Williams, Thomas J. C.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.2 S334

Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

Responsibility: Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;

Date of Publication: 1734 - 1935.

Physical Description: 4 reels ; 35 mm.

Notes: Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.; Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.; Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.

Subjects: Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.; Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.

Additional Author: Britton, William W.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 15, Sec. 1

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Ricketts' circus in Lancaster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3323

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Me and Buffalo Bill

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1667

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Contact points : American frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18679

Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13456

Emigrants in chains : a social history of forced emigration to the Americas of felons, destitute children, political and religious non-conformists, vagabonds, beggars and other undesirables, 1607-1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9980

Lancaster County : the red rose of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo138

Deaths reported by Der Libanon Demokrat : a German language newspaper published at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 1832-1864

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19398

Grave undertakings : gravestone inscriptions of Old Warwick Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8368

Monocacy and Catoctin

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8564

Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13303