"McKean: The Governor's County"
Rufus Barrett Stone

Submitted by PHGS Member
Mike Henderson



"McKean: The Governor's County", Rufus Barrett Stone. Lewis Publishing Company, Inc. New York, 1926. Pages 5 and 6.

Contents
Page
The Tell-Tale Earth
12
Coming West
16
Drama of Statecraft
25
The Governor's Weapon
30
Riverside Settlements
32
Genesis of Bradford
37
Pressure of Corporate Monopoly
45
Taming of Natural Gas
48
Salubrity and Scenery
51
Chronological Events
54
Newell's Historical Address
55
Historic Places in and About Bradford 
76
Third Court House
82
Commonwealth Humane Society
96
The Indian Reaction
102
The Name Bradford
105
The County Metropolis
112
Bradford Post Office
118
McKean County Historical Society
126
Facsimile Letters
128-135
Boundaries and Bounties 
135
Connecticut vs. Pennsylvania
137
Hamlin's Reminiscences 
148
Smethport Academy
164
Navigable Highways
169
East and West Road
171
Fair Play Men 
175
First Oil Wells in Bradford District
177
Incidents of Petroleum Discovery
178
The Big Level
190
Bradford Hospital
198
Pompelon Club
203
Women's Clubs
211
Surface Values and Industries - Forest, Farm and Garden, Wild Game, Fish
216
Education
236
The Great Revolt
257
Miscellany -- Oil Exchange, Official Personnel; Bucktail Rifle Reunion; Soldiers' Monument Dedication; Law Enforcement League; Memorial Day, 1889; Oil Productors' Mass Meeting; Grant's Visit; Eighteenth Amendment; World War; Canoe Place Historical Society; Gasoline from Natural Gas; Arkwood; Wedding of Lucretia Farr; Governor Walker; With Bradford Ministerial Union
267
Index 309

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