Word: gallitzin
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Francis Warren Pershing, son of General John Joseph Pershing: 1) As part of his Yale industrial engineering course stoked a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive between Altoona and Gallitzin, Pa.; 2) was appointed floor-manager of Yale's senior promenade next June...
...other hundreds of towns and villages that sprang up in the early days of our country, flourished and perished, leaving here and there a battered church tower, a deserted farmhouse, a buried pavement-and nothing else? Or of Robert Owen's communistic town in Indiana, or Prince Gallitzin's colony in the Pennsylvania mountains, or the California gold rush towns? If you are interested in the romantic history of the colonization, and growth of North America, Mr. Paris is an eloquent guide along its byways. If you are not interested, this is at least an attractively illustrated volume...
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