TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - dreams
KW - George S. Cox (1849-1856)
KW - Joseph C. Cox (1850-1856)
KW - missing persons
AU - C. [Craig] Jeffries
AB - A novelized biography of George and Joseph Cox, young brothers who wandered from their cabin and disappeared into the Allegheny Mountains on April 24, 1856. More than 1,000 people joined the search within 10 days. Jacob Dibert, a nearby farmer, traced clues from his vivid dream and discovered the boys in a ravine—dead by exposure—lying in the roots of a large birch tree.
C1 - 1856
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Bedford County; Pavia Twp.; Blair County
C4 - Biographical; Mystery
CY - Dayton, OH
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - A novelized biography of George and Joseph Cox, young brothers who wandered from their cabin and disappeared into the Allegheny Mountains on April 24, 1856. More than 1,000 people joined the search within 10 days. Jacob Dibert, a nearby farmer, traced clues from his vivid dream and discovered the boys in a ravine—dead by exposure—lying in the roots of a large birch tree.
PB - M. T. Dill
PP - Dayton, OH
PY - 1857
RN - Little is known of the Craig Jeffries except that in 1846 he published a similar folk tale: <em>Wabash Captives, or, The Awful Sentence. A Thrilling Narrative of Crime and Death, and Wonderful Adventures of James Brady and Others, among the Indians on the Wabash, 60 Years Ago, Near the Spot Where Lafayette Now Stands, Founded on Fact</em>.
EP - 56 p.
TI - The Lost Brothers: A Thrilling Narrative of Truth. Being a Collection of Facts in Reference to the Death of George and Joseph Cox, Who Perished in the Alleghany Mountains, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in the Month of April, 1856
ER -