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...endless whispers from the silence of the trees. They were audible, distinct, and formless. I had not slept for a long time. I was hurrying somewhere southeast of Montana heading farther southeast, past and through sluggish well-worn hours, into a future of aching brightness that kept receding. Fatigue opposes tranquility. I was looking in vain, but I was escaping. I follo...

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...Who Learns My Lesson Complete? Tests The Torch O Star of France The Ox-Tamer An Old Man's Thought of School Wandering at Morn Italian Music in Dakota With All Thy Gifts My Picture-Gallery The Prairie States PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM PASSAGE TO INDIA PRAYER OF COLUMBUS THE SLEEPERS TRANSPOSITIONS TO THINK OF TIME WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH Darest Thou Now O...

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...han the statement of the cause of this visit. The spirit and temper of the South, that she had from her mother, flamed up in Laura at last, and the me... ... a certain air of distinction and exclusiveness. Vines grew thick upon the southern walls; in the summer time fuchsias, geraniums, and pansies would f... ...lixir—from the very ends and cor- ners of the continent. Or, again, it was South Water Street—a jam of delivery wagons and market carts backed to the ... ...of century-old trees, stimulated by this city’s energy. Just as far to the southward pick and drill leaped to the assault of veins of anthracite, move... ...ing into Mrs. Cressler’s carriage. Landry excused himself. He lived on the South Side, on Michigan Avenue, and declaring that he knew they had had eno... ...wheat that rolled through this place from the farms of Iowa and ranches of Dakota to the mills and bakeshops of Europe. “There’s something, perhaps, i... ...e are thou- sands upon thousands of farmers out here in Iowa and Kansas or Dakota who do, and hundreds of thousand of poor devils in Europe who care e... ...ranches were one welter of fertility. All over the United States, from the Dakotas, from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Illi- nois, from all the wheat be... ...cataract that poured in upon the Pit from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota, from the dwindling bins of Illinois and the fast-emptying el- evato...

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...n, and Robert Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wi... ...s cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so ... ...e wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was fo... ... ago. Along the decks she saw missionaries, gamblers in tall pot hats, and Dakota chiefs with scarlet blankets… . Far off whistles at night, round the... ...-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and... ...aying mumblety-peg with Mrs. Lym Cass, Pete and me will be rambling across Dakota, through the Bad Lands, into the butte country, and when fall comes,... ...ow with the hint of a coming tornado. Impalpable black dust far-borne from Dakota covered the inner sills of the closed windows. The July heat was eve... ...send me up a team. Guess snow’s too thick for a machine. Going eight miles south. All right. Huh? The hell I will! Don’t you go back to sleep. Huh? We... ...s farmers’ line.” He turned to Carol. “Adolph Morgenroth, farmer ten miles southwest of town, got his arm crushed-fixing his cow- shed and a post cave...

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...CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Lo... ... Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, parched, and baked and crisped af... ...nd the mine—all this, all the traits and types of every community from the Dakotas to the Mexicos, from Winnipeg to Guadalupe, gathered to- gether, sw... ...erce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wearied him. He cared for none of t... ... some eight miles wide. He was still on the Home ranch. A few miles to the south he could just make out the line of wire fence that separated it from ... ...The Home ranch of the Quien Sabe was in the little triangle bounded on the south by the railroad, on the northwest by Broderson Creek, and on the east... ... effects of causes thousands of miles distant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a ho... ...her of the San Joaquin, yes, and of ev- ery owner of every bonanza farm in Dakota and Minne- sota. Send your wheat to China; handle it yourselves; do ... ...sk yourselves, every citizen of every State from Maine to Mexico, from the Dakotas to the Carolinas, have you not the monster in your boundaries? If i...

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...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ..., G, H, I, and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and so on, on... .... The Treasury chambers is as yet an unfinished building. The front to the south has been completed, but that to the north has not been built. Here at... ...ania Avenue, but the avenue here, has turned round, and runs due north and south, having taken a twist, so as to make way for the Treasury and for the... ...he land lying back from them to the Rocky Mountains, Utah, Ne- braska, and Dakota, and forms no doubt the widest do- minion ever ceded by one national...

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... any Indian variety. Tales of the war I heard told by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introduc... ... they were not pretty tricks), of deaths sudden and violent in Montana and Dakota, of the loves of half-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic hunt... ...d violent in Montana and Dakota, of the loves of half-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska. Above all, the... ...ts of his people. Just now a wave of religion is sweeping over some of the Southern States. Up to the present two Messiahs and a Daniel have ap- peare... ...ages, neither more nor less. What will the American do with the negro? The South will not consort with him. In some States miscegenation is a penal of... ...ies of Georgia’s modern chivalry, and all the weary, weary rest of it. The Southern chivalry howled, and hanged or burned some one in effigy. Perhaps ...

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...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ...ORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having del... ...ther incompatible. The persons in these three States: Georgia Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore held as slaves are therefore declared forever fre... ...Centreville. This he says is reliable. He is also informed of large forces south of him. We know a force of some 15,000 broke up Saturday night from i... ...sin, Illinois, Missouri, Kan- sas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Territories of Dakota, Nebraska, and part of Colorado, already has above 10,000,000 people...

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...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...d lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The question of men is a different one. There are good, patriotic me... ...s a different one. There are good, patriotic men and able statesmen in the South whom I would cheerfully support, if they would now place themselves o... ...le support in the North, and by consequence, no capital to trade on in the South, if it were not for his friends thus magni- fying him and his humbug.... ...r our laws, the punishment of which is death. The Territories of Colorado, Dakota, and Nevada, created by the last Congress, have been organized, and ...

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...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...pril, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texa... ...not the present marshal, and I will nominate him to be Provost-Marshal for Dakota. Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO E. H. EAST. W ASHINGTON, February 27, ... ...neither work for others, nor have others working for them. In most of the Southern States, a majority of the whole people, of all colors, are neither... ... a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history...

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...nglish Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of North America – P... ...and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the gr... ...r having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly glid- ing along the argillaceous bed which nature ... ...st landed on the shores of the West Indies, and afterwards on the coast of South America, they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regi... ...us, and solemn: it seemed created to be the domain of intelligence, as the South was that of sensual delight. A turbulent and foggy ocean washed its s... ... these by far the largest part exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In New England, Pennsylvania, and New Yo...

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...usband just sixty- seven times. “Lots of news. Terrible big tornado in the South. Hard luck, all right. But this, say, this is corking! Beginning of t... ...s a whale of a run for their money!” Yet on the telephone they said only: “South 343. No, no, no! I said south—South 343. Say, operator, what the dick... ...outh 343. Say, operator, what the dickens is the trouble? Can’t you get me South 343? Why certainly they’ll answer. Oh, Hello, 343? Wanta speak Mist’ ... ...the Zenith of 1885. While he was passing the five-and-ten- cent store, the Dakota Lodging House, Concordia Hall with its lodge-rooms and the offices o... ...w, Henry T. Thompson, at his kitchen-cabinet works, and they drove through South Zenith, a high-col- ored, banging, exciting region: new factories of ... ... Cen- tral and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 Babbitt They talked to the secretar... ...tire-mileage, oil-stocks, fishing, and the prospects for the wheat-crop in Dakota. But the fat man was impatient at this waste of time. He was a veter... ...e fourth drink that Sir Gerald asked hum- bly, “What do you think of North Dakota mortgages?” but it was not till after the fifth that Babbitt began t...

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...horus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are few po- em... ...and listen to hear the voice of the Pacific. You pass out of the town to the south-west, and mount the hill among pine- woods. Glade, thicket, and gro... ...gher, in clouds of a gigantic size and often of a wild configuration; to the south, where they have struck the seaward shoulder of the mountains of Sa... ...efinitely varied in other zones. The elements are differently mingled in the south, in what we may call the T erritorial belt and in the group of Stat... ...there; the Cornish miner, the French or Mexican half-blood, the negro in the South, these are deep in the woods and far among the mountains. But in an... ...s with bursting surges; the dens and sheltered hollows redolent of thyme and south- ernwood, the air at the cliff’s edge brisk and clean and pun- gent...

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...ld Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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... . . . . 230 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The C... ...s draw closer, and experienced vague yearnings for the sunnier pastures of the Southland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle wi... ...cenes of his childhood. And most pathetic was the melody of his long forgotten Southern vernacular, as he raved of swimming holes and coon hunts and w... ...he man would not die. At high noon, the sun, without raising its rim above the southern hori zon, threw a suggestion of fire athwart the heavens, then... ...an naked to the very roots of his soul, and ere Lake Athabasca was lost in the south, each member of the party had hoisted his true colors. The two sh... ... that canoodlin’ pardner of yourn,” suggested a heavy going Westerner from the Dakotas, at the same time pointing out Weatherbee. “He ’ll be shore to ...

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...–Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts........................... ......................480 To a Locomotive in Winter................484 O Magnet South................................485 All Is Truth....................... .......................492 By Broad Potomac’s Shore................493 From Far Dakota’s Canyons (June 25, 1876)........................................... ... through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We confer on equal terms w... ...any lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, o... ...arrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring, Or withdrawn to m... ...ontinents away group’d together, The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between. See, vast trackless spaces, As in a drea... ...es of fire ceaseless to vivify all. 4 Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North, Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are... ...liuto;) Ray’d in the limpid yellow slanting sundown, Music, Italian music in Dakota. While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl’d realm, Lurking in hidden ...