| | 2 | Author: | King, Captain Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Custer's Last Battle  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT is hard to say how many years ago the Dakotas of the upper
Mississippi, after a century of warring with the Chippewa nation,
began to swarm across the Missouri in search of the buffalo, and
there became embroiled with other tribes claiming the country
farther west. Dakota was the proper tribal name, but as they
crossed this Northwestern Rubicon into the territory of unknown
foemen they bore with them a title given them as far east as the
banks and bluffs of the Father of Waters. The Chippewas had called
them for years "the Sioux" (Soo), and by that strange un-Indian-sounding title is known to this day the most numerous and powerful
nation of red people—warriors, women, and children—to be found on
our continent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Violet Fairy Book | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LONG, long ago there stood in the midst of a country
covered with lakes a vast stretch of moorland called the
Tontlawald, on which no man ever dared set foot.
From time to time a few bold spirits had been drawn by
curiosity to its borders, and on their return had reported
that they had caught a glimpse of a ruined house in a
grove of thick trees, and round about it were a crowd of
beings resembling men, swarming over the grass like
bees. The men were as dirty and ragged as gipsies,
and there were besides a quantity of old women and half-naked children. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Leach, Anna | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Literary Workers of the South | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | UNTIL a comparatively recent date, there were almost no men and
women in the South who made a profession of literature. Before the
war, there was here and there a man who amused himself by writing a
book. William Gilmore Simms, indeed, was a professed literary man; so
was Poe, but he left the South early in his career. The books of John
Pendleton Kennedy, secretary of the navy under Fillmore,
Eliza J. Nicholson.From a photograph by Simon, New
Orleans.
A portrait of Eliza J. Nicholson, from a photograph by Simon
of New Orleans
are still sold; and few Southern sketches surpass those of Judge
Longstreet. There was no end to the verse makers. Still, as a
generality, it is true to say that literature as a serious business of
life was not known. Every man and woman of education was taught to
express himself or herself on paper with force and elegance; but it
was considered as an accomplishment in the woman, and as a necessary
adjunct to his position in life
in the man. The heavy bundles of old letters which belong to every
old Southern family will show that there was enough talent in those
days to have made an American literature, had it been directed into
the proper channels. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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