Author - John L Moore
John L. Moore, a veteran newspaperman, said he employed a journalist’s eye for detail and ear for quotes in order to write about long-dead people in a lively way. He said his books are based on 18th and 19th century letters, journals, memoirs and transcripts of official proceedings such as interrogations, depositions and treaties.
The author is also a professional storyteller who specializes in dramatic episodes from Pennsylvania’s colonial history. Dressed in 18th century clothing, he does storytelling in the persona of “Susquehanna Jack,” a frontier ruffian. Moore is available weekdays, weekends and evenings for audiences and organizations of all types and sizes.
Moore has participated in several archaeological excavations of Native American sites. These include the Village of Nain, Bethlehem; the City Island project in Harrisburg, conducted by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission during the 1990s; and a Bloomsburg University dig in 1999 at a Native American site near Nescopeck. He also took part in a 1963 excavation conducted by the New Jersey State Museum along the Delaware River north of Worthington State Forest.
Moore’s 45-year career in journalism included stints as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal; as a Harrisburg-based legislative correspondent for Ottaway News Service; as managing editor of The Sentinel at Lewistown; as editorial page editor and managing editor at The Daily Item in Sunbury; and as editor of the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal in Bethlehem.
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Border Warby John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Seri...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series Months after the October 1781 surrender of the British army at Yorktown, pro-British Indians continued to raid American frontier settlements along ... -
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The Outpostsby John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Seri...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series When the American Revolution began in 1775, neither the British nor the Americans wanted to involve the native tribes. “This is a family quarrel be... -
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Scorched Earth: General Sullivan and the Senecasby John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Seri...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series Throughout 1778, Iroquois war parties repeatedly raided the frontiers of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. In 1779, General George Washington... -
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1780: Year of Revengeby John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Seri...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series 1779 was the fifth year of the American Revolution, and many Iroquois Indians living in western New York sided with the British. Their war parties ... -
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Murder at Killbuck Islandby John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Ser...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series One Sunday in 1782, white vigilantes suddenly appeared at a camp of Delaware Indians on an island in the Allegheny River near Fort Pitt in western... -
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Against the Ice: The story of December 1776by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Seri...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series A wintry December 1776 forced General Washington’s army to struggle against the ice, snow, sleet, and wind as well as against Hessian and British s... -
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Skunks, Nuts and Other Storiesby John L Moore A Chronicle Culled from the Ora...by John L Moore A Chronicle Culled from the Oral Histories of the Moore/Evans Clan As a boy delivering newspapers after school, author John L. Moore once found a copy of Playboy magazine on the gra... -
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Tories, Terror, and Teaby John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Seri...by John L Moore Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series With the sesquicentennial of the American Revolution on the horizon, Tories, Terror, and Tea delves deeply into contemporary accounts of the times ... -
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Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberlandby Joseph Priestley, Edited by John L. Moore, F...by Joseph Priestley, Edited by John L. Moore, Foreword by John L. Moore A world-famous Englishman, Dr. Joseph Priestley addressed the 12 letters in this little book to “the Inhabitants of Northumbe... -
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Traders, Travelers, and Tomahawksby John L Moore Frontier Pennsylvania Series As...by John L Moore Frontier Pennsylvania Series As he traveled across the Pennsylvania Frontier in 1743, naturalist John Bartram didn’t know what to expect when he accepted an invitation to spend the ... -
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Bows, Bullets, and BearsFrontier Pennsylvania Series Jack Armstrong die...Frontier Pennsylvania Series Jack Armstrong died violently along the Juniata River in early 1744. Armstrong was a rough-and-tumble frontier trader whose sharp business practices antagonized one Ind... -
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Warriors, Wampum, and Wolvesby John L Moore Frontier Pennsylvania Series In...by John L Moore Frontier Pennsylvania Series In April 1753, frontier missionary David Zeisberger prepared for a month-long voyage up the Susquehanna River’s North Branch by walking along the river ...
