| | 84 | Author: | Irving, Washington | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Tour on the Prairies.  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HAVING, since my return to the United States, made a wide and varied tour, for
the gratification of my curiosity, it has been supposed that I did it for the
purpose of writing a book; and it has more than once been intimated in the
papers, that such a work was actually in the press, containing scenes and
sketches of the Far West. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 93 | Author: | Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Abraham Lincoln : an essay | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | NO American can study the character and career of Abraham Lincoln without being
carried away by sentimental emotions. We are always inclined to idealize that
which we love,—a state of mind very unfavorable to the exercise of
sober critical judgment. It is therefore not surprising that most of those who
have written or spoken on that extraordinary man, even while conscientiously
endeavoring to draw a lifelike portraiture of his being, and to form a just
estimate of his public conduct, should have drifted into more or less
indiscriminating eulogy, painting his great features in the most glowing colors,
and covering with tender shadings whatever might look like a blemish. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 95 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with
illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT WAS IN 1590—winter. Austria was far away from the world, and
asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so
forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by
the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But
they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all
proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too,
the pleasure it gave me. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 98 | Author: | Abbott, John S. C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | David Crockett: His Life and Adventures | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Emigrant.—Crossing the Alleghanies.—The boundless
Wilderness.—The Hut on the Holston.—Life's Necessaries.—The Massacre.—Birth
of David Crockett.—Peril of the Boys.—Anecdote.—Removal to Greenville;
to Cove Creek.—Increased Emigration.—Loss of the Mill.—The Tavern.—Engagement
with the Drover.—Adventures in the Wilderness.—Virtual Captivity.—The
Escape.—The Return.—The Runaway.—New Adventures. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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