A Border Tale of Indian Conflict and a Tragic Rescue
In 1831 while surveying Iowa frontier, I witness a chief, a French Indian mix, and rival lovers clash by a stream. A night siege ends with fire, death, and the maiden slain, the half breed killed, and two young rescuers lost to the depths as a forest flames.
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Iowa
Mississippi
Great Lakes
North Western Territory
Earth
Heaven
Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock
A religious meditation urges sinners to open heart to Christ who knocks with love and mercy. It warns against delaying salvation, cites conscience and memory as accusers, and contrasts mercy with the looming judgment of the door as the Judge.
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Wuo Ovenr to prink Liquor
A satirical note declares liquor harmful to all social classes. It claims liquor harms the rich's refreshment, the poor's purse and health, the idle man's morals, the merchant's finances, the mechanic's reliability, and the farmer's livestock and household economy.
Name Him Not A Sorrowful Tale Of Lost Love And Suffering
A poem speaks of forbidding a name and mourning a vanished beloved. A long prose fragment follows about a distressed mother who travels the West with her dying child, sharing a harrowing tale of elopement, abandonment, and ultimate death. A young man reveals he is her brother at her graveside.
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Susy and Dickey elope thwarted by bold aunt
A poor Dickey loves Susy and seeks to marry against her rich mother's wishes. The aunt traps them in a closet and forces breakfast with a confession of plans to wed. In a second tale a Virginia governor’s grandson learns from a Sabbath school lesson that God owns the woods and fields while the walnuts belong to us.
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Dickey
Susy
Alem
Virginia
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