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William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.
The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel [1] and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called " Edisonade " genre. [ 2 ]
The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo. His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man".
The duck, flying across the sunset, seemed to Bryant as solitary a soul as himself, and he wrote the poem that evening. [4] "To a Waterfowl" was first published in the North American Review in Volume 6, Issue 18, March 1818. [5] It was later published in the collection Poems in 1821. [1]
Prairie madness sometimes resulted in the afflicted person moving back East or, in extreme cases, suicide. Prairie madness is not a clinical condition; rather, it is a pervasive subject in writings of fiction and non-fiction from the period to describe a fairly common phenomenon.
Robert H. Birch with his Banditti outlaw partners, William Fox and John Long burying ill-gotten loot An illustration of Edward Bonney, from his book Banditti of the Prairies who as a bounty hunter and amateur detective in 1846, began a man-hunt doggedly pursued Robert Birch and his accomplices in the "Banditti of the Prairie", from Illinois to ...
Alarmed by a tragic shooting in his hometown, a New Orleans musician gives hope to kids—for a song. The post This Musician Asks Kids to Trade Their Guns in for Trumpets to Help Combat Violence ...
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life is a 2013 book by Canadian scholar James Daschuk. [1] The book takes an epidemiological approach and documents the historical roots of modern health disparities between Canadians and Indigenous peoples living in what is now Canada. [2]