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A short note in which Whitman refers to his 1879 railroad trip to Kansas. Whitman travelled west to attend the quarter-centennial celebration of the Kansas settlement and to visit his brother Jeff in St. Louis. Whitman journeyed as far as Denver and the Rockies before returning to Camden on January 5, 1880. A portion of this manuscript was used in "Upon Our Own Land," a short piece Whitman included in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882). "Upon Our Own Land" appeared unchanged in
Complete Prose
(1892).
