[There in the far northwest]

Whitman Archive Title: [There in the far northwest]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00121
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 27
Folder: From Far Dakota's Canons (1876). A.MS.S. drafts.
Series: Literary File
Date: 1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 10 leaves, 20 x 12 cm, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Apparently, two versions of a poem about the death of Custer. On the verso of the second page is "A Death Sonnet" (see image 14) and on another is "A Death Sonnet for Custer" (see image 4). The poem was published on June 10, 1876 as "A Death Sonnet for Custer."