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Towns of North Mountain: Ricketts, Mountain Springs and Stull, by
F. Charles Petrillo.
Dedicated to the Memory of
Ranald Douglas
(1853-1910)
The Ricketts
Photographer
It tells the story of the early logging and ice harvesting industries in the Endless Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania and the remarkable men who once presided over an empire in the woods.
The book, published in 1991 by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, is now out of print and bound copies are no longer available.
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Introduction
1. Albert Lewis and Arthur Stull
2. The Bowman's Creek Branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
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