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descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river
; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I
descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river
; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I
Pasted on p. 19, newspaper article titled "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr. Ball's Mill."
To set down and write to the “Roaring River Republican” a complete exposure of the disgraceful motives
even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river
Evok- ing the chaotic scene of the night battle on the river as the “shock of ships”colliding amid the
,The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, and contrasted with his youthful journey back up the Ohio River
“Our rival Roses warred for Sway— / For Sway, but named the name of Right” in “The Battle of Stone River
Soldiers become an “Abrahamic river” in “The Muster,” the flashes of bayonets are northern lights in
city like this, partaking as it does of the metropolitan character of our great neighbor over the river
I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).
In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with
"Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose
The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the
"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I