Most of the colorful tales about Davey Lewis appeared seventy years after his death. By then, seventy years had passed, giving memory and imagination plenty of time to transform an outlaw into a champion of the poor, as Pennsylvania's own Robin Hood.
September 04, 2026
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Terry Diener
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Additional Credits:
“The Life and Adventures of David Lewis, The Robber and Counterfeiter: The Terror of the Cumberland Valley,” ed. C. D. Rishel (Newville, PA: 1890); Photo Credit: Lewis Cave at Doubling Gap, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, traditionally associated with David “Davy” Lewis—the outlaw known as the “Robin Hood of Pennsylvania”; Cumberland County Historical Society, Record ID 03D-11-02
