A History Between the Rivers

About the Book

With "A History, Between the Rivers, the Susquehanna, the Juniata, and the Potomac, 1609 - 1959", Pennsylvania journalist C. Arnold McClure provides a chronological history of the people who have lived between the rivers of central Pennsylvania and western Maryland. Drawing primarily from newspaper accounts of events and milestones of the first 350 years of Pennsylvania and American history, McClure has supplemented the information with diary and other personal accounts, government records, and the writings of other historians. This book (and books which will follow) records the history of a European human overflow into the colonies of America. From the discovery of the Delaware Bay to the resulting settlements on the banks of the Delaware River, the Potomac River, the Susquehanna River, and the Juniata River, historic milestones are dated and recorded in this book.

About the Author

C. Arnold McClure has been publisher of The Valley Log, a weekly newspaper in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, for 28 years. He graduated from Penn State University in 1971 with a B.S. in Social Studies of Secondary Education. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving in the U.S. Army Security Agency from 1966 to 1969. This book is the first in a series of books that he will soon be publishing that have resulted from his more than 20 years of research into Pennsylvania history.