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True tales and curious legends, dramatic stories from the Yankee past, Edward Rowe Snow

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True tales and curious legends

Edward Rowe Snow

dramatic stories from the Yankee past

Treasure chests, pirate, and diver's gold. America's first treasure river -- Thomas Tew, Thoreau, and a treasure chest -- A pirate cartographer who escaped hanging -- Ghosts, fantasies, and the devil. Princess Augusta and Dolphyn -- The ghost of the murdered minister -- Pirate Lee and three white horses -- The Salem druggist -- Satan and his burial place -- The femme fatale and others. Lady Wentworth, or the girl and the governor -- Three unfortunate ladies -- Witchcraft -- Deborah, who fought in the revolution -- Margaret Fuller -- Inland, the coast, and New England Indians: Yankee vignettes -- The giant garnet -- Thunder and lightning -- The old oaken bucket -- Philip the Aggressor -- He discovered the Chelsea fire -- The white deer -- An̈ghemak-ti-koos or Agamenticus -- Shipbuilding, shipwrecks, and sea serpents. Death on the North River -- Peruvian and Francis -- Giovanni -- My Irish ancestor -- His majesty, the sea serpent -- Donald McKay