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Two Heroes Of A Vanished Age
Shelby R-5 May 22 recounts Baxter Long of Little Britain Rutherford NC and Oliver H Bennett of Stringtown Adair KY as two giant fighters from a vanished era. The piece praises their fortitude with tall tales of California, Cuba encounters, and Mexican War exploits, ending with their deaths in sanctity.
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Kentucky
Rutherford County
N. C
Baxter Long
Brittian
Stringtown
Adair County
Oliver H. Bennett
Martial Baxter Long
California
Qhia
Walker
Antilles
Cuba
Baxter
Dreamland
Ol Bennett
Winfield Scott
U. S
Bennett
Little Britain
Montezuma