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Around Butler County NEW! An Address: Historic and Reminiscent.                                                                                                      By Andrew White McCollough.  Reprinted by Tim Shaffer.      Reprint of Andrew White McCollough’s address for the centennial of Mt. Nebo Presbyterian Church at Whitestown.  Soft cover, 119 pages. Price: $10.00+tx BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Donegal: Land of the Irish, History of Donegal Township                                                            By Irene Green Donegal Township was named for a county in Ireland from which many of its pioneer settlers came.  The book covers early industries, agriculture and hunting, the oil boom in the late 1800s, and schools, among many other topics.  Contains black and white photos, soft cover. Price: $14.00 Harmony in 1811 from Travels in the United States of America by John Melish Reproduction of John Melish's account of his visit in 1811 to Harmony.  "The best surviving description of the Harmony Society's first community in America."   Soft cover, 26 pages. Price: $5.00+tx Historic Saxonburg and Its Neighbors By Ralph Goldinger This book covers the founding of the community of Saxonburg by John Roebling and its subsequent growth and development. Hard cover, 161 pages. Price: $11.00 The Historic Town of Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania By President Judge John H. Wilson This is the publication of the January 26, 1937, address of John H. Wilson, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, Pennsylvania as presented to the Women’s Community Club of Harmony. It includes the history of George Rapp and the Harmonists, Abraham Zeigler and the Mennonites, and how the author remembers Harmony as a boy. Soft cover, 35 pages with black and white photos. Price: $2.95+tx Interesting Trials: The Case of Samuel Mohawk A book of the famous trial of Samuel Mohawk, the Seneca Indian who massacred the Wigton family near Slippery Rock. Soft cover, 24 pages. Price: $5.00+tx The Life and Times of Connoquenessing By the Sixth Grade Class of Connoquenessing Elementary School, Co-edited by Roy Frazier and Linda Gibala Subjects vary from Native Americans to the Biddle Brothers, including personal reflections of Connoquenessing residents. Soft cover, 209 pages with black and white photos. Price: $12.00 A Listing of Names Inscribed on Ladies Aid Society Subscription Quilt Dated January 1932 – St. John’s Reformed Church By Ray and Kay Hoffman The Society owns a subscription quilt made by the Ladies Aid Society of St. John’s Reform Church of Chicora in 1932.  There are 492 names on the quilt in 25 groups of 20 names.  There is a surname list on page 4 of this document.  Every name is listed in the ending table of this document.  The quilt itself is displayed at the Shaw House Museum in Butler.  Kay E. Hoffman and Ray D. Hoffman transcribed the names and wrote this report.  Price: $1.00 NEW! Main Street Butler: An Album, 1960 & 1980                                                                                            By Stephen M. Pozar The photographs in this book of Main Street as it was in the early 1960s are from the collection of the Butler County Historical Society.  They are tantalizing in that they show only the buildings at the corners of each intersection.  The photographs of Main Street as it was in 1980, were taken by the author, and are a complete record of every building from the South Main Street Viaduct to Brady Street.  Black and white photos, soft cover, 144 pages. Price: $32.00 NEW! The Old Home Week Book                                                                                                                                 By Andrew White McCulloch and David Luther Roth.  Reprinted by Tim Shaffer. A reprint of the original Prospect Old Home Week Book of 1912.  Soft cover, 201 pages. Price: $10.00+tx Penn Panorama: The First 200 Years, A History of Penn Township Butler County, Pennsylvania 1797-1996 - SOLD OUT! By the Historical Committee of Penn Township   Stories from Penn Township’s past, from native villages to luxury housing developments. Hard cover with dust jacket, 234 pages with black and white photos. Price: $15.00+tx NEW! Prospect Memories Reprints of a series of newspaper articles about the citizens of Prospect as seen through the eyes of George Preston Weigle.  All volumes include name index.  Soft cover. Price:Vol. 1 - Jan. 8, 1886 - Dec. 28, 1900  -  $20.00+tx             Vol. 2 - Jan. 3, 1901 - Dec. 27, 1910  -  $10.00+tx             Vol. 3 - Jan.  3, 1911  - Dec. 26, 1918  -  $10.00+tx             Vol. 4 - Jan.  1, 1919  - Dec. 23, 1924  -  $10.00+tx NEW! Prospect Remembers                                                                                                                                                By Prospect Terquasquicentennial Committee A reprint of The Old Home Week Book of 1912 by Andrew White McCulloch and David Luther Roth with the addition of photographs.  The book also includes additional sections, including Rube Waddell, churches, schools, and the military.  Hard cover, 170 pages. Price: $25.00+tx A Town Hidden on a Hill, Queen Junction:  History of a Railroad Town, Clay Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania By Hazel Townsend, Charles Conn Brown and Gary M. Fleeger   This book covers the history of the area, which was a crossroads for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroads, from the nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.  Includes many photographs.  Available in hard cover and soft cover, 250 pages. Price:  $25.00 - soft cover, $35.00 - hard cover The Wigton Massacre: A Documentary History Edited by Dr. David Dixon and Nicholas Kimpan A collection of rare and classic accounts of Seneca Indian Sam Mohawk’s murder of the James Wigton family near Slippery Rock. Soft cover, 51 pages with black and white photos. Price: $5.00+tx

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Business/Industrial History Butler’s Past Comes Alive By Ralph Goldinger A book about local railroads, breweries, and many other industries, which includes recorded recollections of well-known Butler residents. Soft cover, 267 pages with black and white photographs. Price: $15.00 The History of Medicine in Butler County By Jean B. Purvis This book includes the progress of medical care in the county from pioneer doctors and midwives through the epidemics that ravaged residents. It also covers the creation of the Butler Memorial Hospital. Hard cover with dust jacket, 66 pages with black and white photos. Price: $30.00 The Standard Plate Glass Company By Ray D. Hoffman In the 1880s, ample natural gas supplies made profitable plate glass production possible in Butler.  Pittsburgh-area window glassmakers used the Butler works to challenge the newly formed Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in the rapidly growing national plate glass market.  Many immigrant Belgian, French, German, and English glassworkers joined with native-born workers to operate the plant efficiently and successfully.  Historical sources provide new information about the people who funded and built the plant and about the employers who manned the plant.  Hundreds of workers are identified and their paths to Butler charted.  Soft cover, 52 pages, photographs and maps. Price:  $14.95 Whatever Became of the Baby Austin? By John W. Underwood The story of all the vehicles manufactured at the Butler plant, including the American Austin, the Bantam cars, and the jeep. Soft cover, 44 pages with black and white photos. Price: $15.00+tx NEW! Where Earth Dissolves Like Snow: The Keystone Driller Story                                            By Wayne A. Cole History of the well drilling machine patented in 1880 by Robert Magee Downie of Butler County and his Keystone Driller Company of Beaver County.  The history ironically twists in 1912 from well drilling to the forerunner of America’s first backhoe.  Soft cover, 96 pages. Price:  $20.00+tx

Butler County Histories Butler County By Larry D. Parisi A postcard book containing 200 images from around Butler County.  Soft cover, 128 pages. Price: $19.99+tx Butler County Revisited By Larry D. Parisi The second book in the Butler County Postcard History Series.  Contains 200 images from around Butler County not included in the first book, Butler County.  Soft cover, 128 pages. Price: $19.99+tx Butler County Centennial Souvenir By the Butler County Bicentennial Celebration Committee This limited edition, numbered reprint of Butler County’s Centennial Souvenir for the celebration of Butler County’s bicentennial in 2000 is available in limited quantities.  Hard cover, black and white illustrations and photographs. Price: $20.00 Butler County, Pennsylvania Celebrates Its Bicentennial By the Staff of the Butler Eagle The book form of the articles written in commemoration of the county’s bicentennial. Hard cover with dust jacket, 435 pages with illustrations and black and white photos. Price: $20.00+tx Butler County, the Second Hundred Years By Ralph Goldinger and Audrey Fetters This book contains tales of the people, businesses, and industries of the county. Includes a detailed timeline from 1753 to 1994 and biographical sketches of current and former residents. Hard cover, 218 pages. Price: $25.00 Butler, A Pictorial History By Stephen M. Pozar and Jean B. Purvis Originally published in 1983, this updated county history includes additional information on several areas of the county. Hard cover with dust jacket, 240 pages with black and white photos. Price: $25.00+tx Favorite Sons & Sons of Guns or Butler - The Untold Stories By the English Students of Butler Senior High School, Edited by James Clements This book includes sixty-four historical essays of Butler County. Soft cover, 291 pages with black and white illustrations. Price: $15.00 NEW! An Historical Gazetteer of Butler County, PA                                                                                         By Luanne R. Eisler, Glee C. McKnight, Janet Smith, cartographer This book provides an alphabetical listing of municipalities, landmarks, post offices, creeks, railroad stations, ghost towns and other places that just aren’t there anymore.  Entries are detailed with their locations, how they got their names, their significance, a brief history and name changes.  Also included is a fresh overview of Butler County with up-to-date manufacturing, agricultural, natural history and demographics information with a brief history of each township.  Includes maps; footnotes; bibliography; black and white and colored photographs; and every-name, business, subject and locality index.  Hard cover, 387 pages. Price: $45.00+tx  History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1883 By Waterman, Watkins & Co. This earliest county history covers the time period from 1796 to 1883, including biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers. Hard cover. Price: $55.00+tx Surname Index to 1883 History of Butler County                                                                               By Sally Jordan Reed Soft cover, 32 pages.  Price: $6.00+tx History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1895 By R.C. Brown & Co. 2002 reprint. The personal and family biographies contain very important information on early settlers. This two-volume book also traces the first 95 years of the county. Hard cover, 1,360 pages. Price: $89.95+tx Surname Index to R.C. Brown’s 1895 History of Butler County, Volume II By Sally Jordan Reed Much more complete than the original index.   Soft cover, 17 pages. Price: $6.00+tx History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1909 By James McKee Two-volume book of historical accounts and biographical information about early settlers, merchants, businesses, hotels, and more. Hard cover. Price: $139.95+tx History of Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1927 By Chester H. Sipe Two-volume book packed with local history, biographical sketches, genealogical facts, and dates. Hard cover. Price: $124.95+tx

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Cemetery and Death Records Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 1 - The Northern Townships Mercer, Marion, Venango, Allegheny, Slippery Rock, Cherry, Washington, and Parker Townships. Hard cover, 380 pages. Price: $42.95+tx Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 2 - The North-Central Townships Worth, Brady, Clay, Concord, Fairview, Muddy Creek, Franklin, Center, Oakland, and Donegal Townships. Hard cover, 454 pages. Price: $54.95+tx Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 3 - The Central Townships Butler Township and Butler City. Hard cover, 581 pages. Price: $54.95+tx Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 4 - The Central Townships Lancaster, Connoquenessing, Summit, Clearfield, and Jackson Townships. Hard cover, 367 pages. Price: $44.95+tx Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 5 - The Southern Townships Forward, Penn, Jefferson, Winfield, Cranberry, Adams, Middlesex, Clinton, and Buffalo Townships. Hard cover. Price: $44.95+tx Butler County Cemeteries Index A surname index of the cemeteries of all five volumes. Price: $29.95+tx Butler County Cemeteries Set Includes all five volumes and index. Price: $260.70+tx   Butler County Death Records, 1893-1905 By Cindy Baughman and Pat Collins   A transcription of the original Death Records includes name of deceased, age, places of birth and death, cause of death, duration of illness, place and date of interment and, sometimes, parents.  Over 6,800 entries.  181 pages. Price: $20.00+tx – soft cover, $30.00+tx – hard cover A Detailed Perspective of Butler County Cemeteries, Volume 1: St. John’s Reformed and Fairview By Vickie Lynn Young Includes tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, photos, maps, and family relationships. Soft cover. Price: $24.95+tx First Presbyterian Church of Portersville By Dwight Copper Tombstone readings listed alphabetically with additional genealogical data, map of cemetery, and copies of newspaper clippings about the church's history.  Soft bound, 45 pages. Price:  $8.50+tx Grace Bible Church Cemetery By Dwight Copper Includes transcriptions from tombstone readings at St. Peter's Reformed Church Cemetery and Methodist Church Cemetery.  Soft cover, 41 pages. Price:  $8.00+tx Muddy Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery By Dwight Copper An alphabetical census of the tombstones in the Muddy Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery located in Clay Township, including genealogical data and information from the new Wigton family monument. Soft cover, 34 pages. Price: $8.50+tx Portersville Bible Church Cemetery By Dwight Copper Tombstone readings by row with additional genealogical data and church history.  Surname index.  Soft bound, 35 pages. Price:  $7.50+tx NEW! St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Records, Sarver                                                                              Published by Baltzer Meyer Historical Society; transcribed by Ethel Maloney; planned, indexed and edited by Paul Miller Ruff Begun as Lovejoy Church; many members from St. Luke’s in Hannastown and St. John’s in Freeport.  61 pages. Price: $13.50+tx Wolf Creek United Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Worth Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania By Dwight Copper   Census of tombstone readings with additional genealogical data.  Indexed.  34 pages, soft cover.  Price: $7.50+tx NEW! Zion English Lutheran Church Records                                                                                                                                                                                   By Dwight Copper Lancaster Township, Butler County, 1861-1925.  54 pages. Price: $16.25+tx Zion Lutheran Church Cemeteries By Dwight Copper An alphabetical listing of Zion Lutheran Church’s Old German and English Cemeteries located in Lancaster Township. Includes some genealogical notes. Soft cover, 45 pages. Price: $8.50+tx

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Civil War Butler County in the Civil War By Bradley L. Pflugh Follow Butler County's soldiers through their victories, glories, defeats, and hardships on the Civil War's battlefields.  The book contains 40+ photographs of Butler County soldiers, their homes, the battlefields on which they fought, and the monuments dedicated to their service.  It also includes maps of the battlefields and a roster of Butler County soldiers.  Each chapter follows an individual Butler County company through their service in the war, including battles at Gettysburg, Antietam, and others.  Hard cover, 175 pages. Price:  $38.00+tx Dear Teres: Civil War Letters of Andrew Joseph Duff and Dennis Dugan of Company F, the Pennsylvania Seventy-Eighth Infantry By Ron Gancas and Dan Coyle, Sr. Contains nearly 250 letters received by Teresa Elizabeth Dugan from her brother and two nephews who served in Company F, the Pennsylvania Seventy-Eighth Infantry. Soft cover, 322 pages. Price: $17.95+tx The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War By Rev. William Davis Slease and Ron Gancas A reprint of a 1915 Slease work with a supplemental roster by Ron Gancas. Slease was a veteran of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Calvary and spent nearly two years researching the officers and men of this gallant regiment. Hard cover, 299 + 124 pages. Price: $39.95+tx NEW! History of the 103rd Regiment PA Veteran Volunteer Infantry                                                                                                                                                                               By Luther S. Dickey (1910 Reprint) Organized in Kittanning, PA, of men from the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, Mercer, Venango, and Westmoreland.  Many of the soldiers were imprisoned at Andersonville.  Includes detailed activities of the unit, pictures, maps, and rosters.  Not indexed.  Hard cover, 400 pages. Price: $54.95+tx NEW! In the Ranks                                                                                                                                                                   By Rev. R.E. McBride   R.E. McBride, of Prospect, recounts his service with the 190th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War.  Soft cover, 246 pages. Price: $15.00+tx Sons of the Commonwealth: A Story of the Pennsylvania Reserves By Samuel Martin Kier The three year Civil War history of the Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves (also known as the Forty-First Regiment). Contains illustrations pin-pointing various locations of the regiment in their theater of operations. Soft cover, 200 pages with black and white illustrations. Price: $11.95+tx

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Cookbooks 200 Years of Butler County Recipes By the Butler County Historical Society Collected recipes from Cooper Cabin, the Lowrie-Shaw House, and friends of the Butler County Historical Society, including desserts and entrees as well as recipes for home remedies and other non-food items. Soft cover, 100 pages. Price: $10.00+tx

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Genealogies From the Archives of Butler County By Diane Marie Voltz Geibel A genealogy of pioneer families of Butler County. Hard cover, 780 pages. Price: $65.00+tx

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Maps Butler City Map, 1896 Bird’s-eye view sketched in the late 19th century on heavy-weight parchment suitable for framing. 32”x22”. Price: $6.95+tx Combination Atlas: The County of Butler and the State of Pennsylvania, 1874 Compiled and published by G. M. Hopkins & Co. Maps of the individual Pennsylvania counties, thirty-three Butler County maps as well as borough maps, all of which contain property owners’ names. Soft cover. Price: $24.95+tx Surname Index to the 1874 Atlas of Butler County, Pennsylvania By Nancy Byers Romig A landowner index to Combination Atlas: The County of Butler and the State of Pennsylvania, 1874. Soft cover, 27 pages. Price: $5.95+tx Reproduction Map of Butler County, Pennsylvania 1858 By Violet M. Covert A reproduction of the 1858 map of Butler County.  Each chapter represents one township with much-easier-to-read landowners’ names, a brief history and index as well as location of cemeteries.  Other maps demonstrate the timeline and division of the townships, and provide locations of schools and other points of historical interest.  Packed full of information, including an index.  143 pages. Price: $21.95+tx – soft cover            $34.95+tx – hard cover

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Miscellaneous Save Our Land, Save Our Towns: A Plan for Pennsylvania By Thomas Hylton Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Hylton studied comprehensive planning in eleven states and reports here on what works to preserve farmlands, foster communities, and provide a better future for our citizens. Soft cover with dust jacket, 127 pages with color photos. Price: $10.00+tx

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Newspapers Butler County, Pennsylvania: News of the Day, 1806-1901 By the Butler County Historical Society See our online index of Butler County residents contained in these newspapers.  Also included on our site is information on purchasing single CD's. Actual Butler County newspapers published between 1806 and 1901.  More than 2,000 individual editions have been scanned onto CDs for your home computer. Titles include papers from every corner of the county including, The Parker Phoenix, Millerstown Review, Northwest Independent, Zelienople News, and more than thirty others. This set of sixteen CDs is arranged chronologically and comes with patented, reader-friendly software and complete, easy instructions.  Not searchable by name. Price: $100.00+tx Connoquenessing Valley News - SOLD OUT! Abstracts 1879-1905, Vol. 1                                                                                                                                                                                            Compiled & Edited by Marilyn Harper Humes Primary genealogical and historical material available in this newspaper of Zelienople, PA, and surrounding areas of Butler County.  Items include marriages, births, deaths and causes.  Every-name index.  Hard cover, 370 pages. Price: $39.95+tx

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Oil Beautiful, Bountiful Butler County By Lenn G. McCorry This book contains two driving tours with historical notes on the oil boom and oil towns of Butler County, some of which no longer exist, by a man who spent his life documenting oil history in the area. Soft cover, 71 pages with black and white photos. Price: $6.95+tx History of the Muddy Creek Oil Field and the Marshall-Barr Site By Ned H. Stokes, P.E. This book traces the development of the oil field that is now part of Moraine State Park. A portion of this field has been restored and made into a museum that is open to the public. The book also discusses the equipment used and the genealogy of the families involved in the oil field. Soft cover, 33 pages with photos and maps. Price: $6.00 NEW! The Geology of the Oil Regions of Warren, Venango, Clarion, and Butler Counties                                                                                                                                                                                 By John Franklin Carll and Reprinted by Oil Region Alliance John Franklin Carll (1828-1904) engaged in oil production in NW Pennsylvania for nearly ten years, becoming a recognized local expert on the geological characteristics of reservoirs as well as the engineering practices used to exploit them.  When the Second Pennsylvania Geological Survey was organized in 1874, Carll was assigned to the oil region as the first geologist ever employed full-time to specialize in petroleum studies; and he conducted the first systematic scientific study of the oil fields.  This book describes the facts and principles regarding the origin, location, abundance, and character of the petroleum deposits in the oil regions of Warren, Venango, Clarion, and Butler counties, as well as the history and mode of their exploitation.  Descriptions of oil well rig and tools are given; pre-glacial drainage of the Lake Erie country is discussed.  It also includes surveys of the Garland and Panama conglomerates in Warren and Crawford Counties in PA, and Chautuaqua County, NY.  Contained are two indexes, 23 pages of plates; and an atlas of 22 sheet of maps, well-sections, and working drawings of well rig and tools.  Hard cover with dust jacket, 486 pages. Price: $52.95+tx   Oil Region Reminiscences Souvenir 1907 Reprint by the Oil Men’s Association of Butler County with new every-name, business, and locality index by the Butler County Genealogical Society                                                                                                                                                                                            This reproduction of the souvenir book, developed for the 21st reunion of the Oil Men of Western Pennsylvania in 1907, preserves many of the scenes, as well as incidents, of those formative years of oil production.  Personal accounts tell of the boomtowns and wells of the lower Butler Field and surrounding areas, evolution of oil well machinery, development of the drilling business, and even the old school days of Butler.  Illustrations, black and white photos.  173 pages.  Price: $22.50+tx – soft cover,      $29.50+tx – hard cover NEW!  AVAILABLE NOW!!! Oil on the Brain: The Discovery of Oil and the Excitement of the Boom in Northwestern Pennsylvania                                                                                                                                                                  2007 Third Edition by Gary S. McKinney Thanks to Col. Edwin Drake and his famous blacksmith-oilwell driller, “Uncle Billy,” the 1860s were years of extensive growth and development in the Venango County oil fields of Pennsylvania.  The excitement and rush of people that followed had not been seen since the Great California Gold Rush of 1849.  As the “Upper Field” began to play out and production slowed, up stepped the newly discovered Clarion, Armstrong and Butler County Oil region.  The 1870s introduced to the world the “Lower Belt,” and the “Boom” was on.  Onward like an advancing army, oilmen and hordes of nameless faces marched triumphantly through the farmers’ fields, orchards, woods and meadows in their quest for petroleum.  In this final edition, author Gary S. McKinney interestingly delivers the reader into the exciting, wild and fascinating history of the northwestern Pennsylvania oil boom of the late 1800s—the early days of oil discovery in America.  All in one volume, it comprises the entire belt of oil discovered in this region.  Revealed are the many stories and faces behind the boom towns that sprang to life along the belt, among those: Parker City, Martinsburg (now Bruin), Modoc, Karns City, Petrolia City, and Millerstown (now Chicora).  Extensively supplemented with black and white photos and illustrations; 30 lithographs, 91 photos and 15 maps have been added to this edition. Price: $44.95 Expected to be Available for the Holidays

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Personal Histories Flood Tides Along the Allegheny By Francis R. Harbison A reprint of a work written in 1941 about the life and family of Massey Harbison. Includes historical details about southern Butler and Armstrong Counties with accounts of early settlers and a fold-out map. Soft cover, 205 pages. Price: $19.95+tx The Journals of George Washington and Christopher Gist: Mission to Fort Le Boeuf 1753-1754 Edited and Annotated by Kevin Patrick Kopper A reprint of the George Washington and Christopher Gist journals of their 1753 expedition to the French forts in western Pennsylvania. This reprint integrates the two journals for the very first time and is liberally annotated by Kopper. The editor also presents a detailed introduction to familiarize the reader with the significance of this historic journey through Butler County. Soft cover, 67 pages. Price: $7.95+tx A Narrative of the Sufferings of Massey Harbison from Indian Barbarity By Drenda Gostkowski and Doris Herceg In 1825, Massey Harbison published an autobiography about her Indian captivity and life following her escape.  The republication of this book includes spellings, punctuations, hyphens, and grammatical constructions evident in the 1825 edition that account for the difference from today's standards.  A 15-page addendum has been added at the back of the book with 12 illustrations of recent research, such as Massey's divorce paper, maps, and signature.  Hard cover. Price: $20.00 Richard Butler, Patriot By Stephen M. Pozar A biographical sketch of the famous Revolutionary War soldier for whom the city and county are named, including family genealogy and military service of Butler and his brothers. Soft cover, 78 pages. Price: $9.00+tx Rube Waddell: Butler’s Outrageous Southpaw By Eric D. Duchess A biographical sketch of the eccentric pitcher from Prospect who is the only Butler County baseball player in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Soft cover. Price: $5.00+tx Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures of Captain Samuel Brady By William Abbatt A reprint of sketches of the life and Indian adventures of this legendary frontiersman. Price: $5.00+tx Storm Stead and Way-Laid: The Gold Rush Diary of Major Felix Casper Negley Edited by Kevin Patrick Kopper The great adventure of Major Felix Casper Negley, who left Butler County to travel to California in search of gold, including desert crossings, disease, and near disaster at sea. Soft cover. Price: $5.00+tx Winfield Township Oral History Interviews By the Freeport Area Historical Society and the Butler County Historical Society This publication contains oral histories and photographs of early families of Winfield Township. Soft cover, 66 pages with black and white photos. Price: $8.95+tx

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Railroads Ghost Rails I - SOLD OUT! By Wayne A. Cole Abandoned railroads, their industries, and their last runs in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.  Hard cover, 143 pages. Price: $30.00+tx Ghost Rails II By Wayne A. Cole Tons of great first-time Butler County photos and history, 16-page color insert on the Western Allegheny Railroad, covers in detail the railroad and coal towns beneath Lake Arthur.  Hard cover, 224 pages. Price: $40.00+tx NEW! Ghost Rails III: Electrics                                                                                                                                                                                  By Wayne A. Cole Upper Ohio Valley—West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania A first-time history: The route of a Million Souls, the Steubenville East Liverpool & Beaver Valley Traction; Youngstown and Ohio River Railroad; Newell Bridge and Railway; Steubenville Traction; the electric coal road of Little Beaver Creek; Youngstown and Southern; Salem Electric; Chester and Rock Spring; Panhandle Electric; Rock Spring, Newell, and Stanton Amusement Parks.  Hard cover, 312 pages. Price: $40.00+tx

World War II Family Letters from the “Greatest Generation” By Richard G. Curry Descriptive, humorous, and emotional letters written home by Curry and other members of his family serving in the Armed Forces during World War II. The letters are reproduced as they were written, complete with ink stains. Soft cover, 333 pages with black and white photographs. Price: $5.00+tx Silent Heroes Among Us By the English Students of Butler Senior High School, Edited by James Clements A collection of oral histories of western Pennsylvania veterans of the Eighth Air Force in World War II which received the Freedom Foundation Award in 1997. Price: $24.95+tx Tales of Valor and Courage of World War II By Richard G. Curry Written to honor and acknowledge Butler County veterans of World War II. Includes wartime letters and then and now photos. Ten dollars from every sale supports the construction of Butler County's World War II monument.  Shrink wrapped.  Hard cover, 243 pages with black and white photos. Price: $20.00+tx

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Gift Shop For more information and to see photos of the following items Click Here! COASTERS Coasters of various Butler County scenes.  Available individually or as a set of 4.  Buy all four in the set as the same scene or mix and match—it’s your choice! Cooper Cabin Lowrie/Shaw House McConnell’s Mill Old Stone House Slippery Rock University—Old Main Price: $7.00 Each $25.00 Set of Four ORNAMENTS Ornaments of various Butler County scenes.  These are going fast!  Please call for availability before mailing your payment! Alameda Park Butler County Courthouse Old Stone House Price: $10.00 Each PLATES Miniature plates of various Butler County scenes. Alameda Park Butler County Courthouse Lowrie/Shaw House McConnell’s Mill Saxonburg Memorial Church Price: $12.00 BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ITEMS Desk-top collectibles bearing the logo of the Butler County Historical Society.  Paper Weights and Trinket Boxes available. Price:   $5.00 Each