The American democrat 762
An aristocrat and a democrat 762
preface to the leather-stocking tales 764
Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) 766
Hope Leslie: or early times in the Massachusetts 768
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 817
Thanatopsis 819
The yellow violet 821
Inscription for the entrance to a wood 822
to a waterfowl 823
oh fairest of the rural maids 823
a forest hymn 824
the two graves 826
to Cole, the painter, departing for europe 828
to the fringed gentian 829
the prairies 829
robert of lincoln 832
The poet 834
The death of lincoln 835
the flood of years 836
CAROLINE STANSBURY KIRKLAND (181-1864) 839
A new home- who'll follow? 840
FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823-1893) 850
The oregon trail 852
Chapter XXIV: The chase 852
Colloquial humor 857
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET (1790-1870) 857
The horse-swap 857
T. B. THORPE (1815-1878) 862
The big bear of arkansas 863
GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS (1814-1869) 871
Sut lovingood's daddy, acting horse 872
Transcendentalism 877
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 879
Nature 881