@book{204, keywords = {Native Americans, flatboats, Pennsylvania Railroad, slavery, Allegheny Portage Railroad, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Lieve (Olivia Pise), William Foster (1779-1855), Eliza T. Foster (1788-1855), Christy Minstrels, Knights of the S.T., composers, minstrels, "Old Dog Tray", Stephen Foster (1826-64), Black Americans, steamboats}, author = {Claire Lee Purdy and Dorothea Cooke Gramatky}, title = {He Heard America Sing: The Story of Stephen Foster}, abstract = {A novelized biography of Stephen Foster (1826-1864), the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The book includes songs like “Oh, Susannah” and “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.”}, year = {1940}, pages = {236 p.}, publisher = {Julian Messner}, address = {New York}, note = {North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.}, language = {English}, }