@book{233, 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 = {Helen Boyd Higgins and Clotilde Embree Funk}, title = {Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel}, abstract = {A novelized biography of Stephen Foster, the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The novel focuses on Foster's Lawrenceville boyhood, his minstrel shows, and how he published his first song at 18.}, year = {1944}, pages = {200 p.}, publisher = {The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.}, address = {Indianapolis}, note = {North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.}, language = {English}, }