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Poe wrote the short story in Philadelphia, where he resided at various locations from 1838 to 1844. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] "The Tell-Tale Heart" was first published in January 1843 in the inaugural issue of The Pioneer: A Literary and Critical Magazine , a short-lived Boston magazine edited by James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter who were listed as the ...
The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer" is a short story by American Civil War soldier and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891, and was reprinted the same year in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians . [ 1 ]
Fanny Kelly (c. 1845–1904 [1]) was a North American pioneer woman captured by the Sioux and freed five months later. She later wrote a book about her experiences called Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians in 1871.
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional [1] town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a ...
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
As part of the launch of the Gold Rush in Pioneer Trail (that started with the appearance of the Railroad on the side of our Homesteads), there's now a new five-part goal series that add to the ...
Rainbow, Rainbow, expected to be published May 31, 2022 by Catapult and June 9, 2022, by Scribner UK, is a collection of short stories. TIME has named Rainbow, Rainbow one of "The 21 Most Anticipated Books of 2022." [24] The book has also landed on "most anticipated" lists from LGBTQ Reads [25] and Electric Literature. [26]
Monroe preserved more than 800 stories related by or about pioneer women. The stories reflect the adversity the women faced in settling the American frontier and their strength in overcoming these obstacles. [2] The project is still in existence today, maintained as the Lilla Day Monroe Collection of Pioneer Women's Stories. [10] [11] [12]