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An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The mans hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck....
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The Outlaw of TornThe Outlaw of Torn Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one of the Plantagenet kings of England. Later it was forgotten. I happened to dig it up by accident. The accident being...
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The Land of Little RainThe Land of Little Rain I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him. Thus he may be Mighty-Hunter, or Man-Afraid-of-a-Bear, according as he is called by...
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The Story of a PioneerThe Story of a Pioneer My father's ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story,...
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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and FablesThe Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables Three of the following Tales have appeared in the Cornhill Magazine; one in Longmans; one in Mr. Henry Normans Christmas Annual; and one in the Court and Society Review. The Author desires to make proper acknowledgements...
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Margaret OgilvyMargaret OgilvyOn the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victory in a womans long campaign; how they had been laboured for, the pound-note and the thirty threepenny-bits they cost,...
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Myths and Legends of the SiouxMyths and Legends of the Sioux In publishing these Myths of the Sioux, I deem it proper to state that I am of one-fourth Sioux blood. My maternal grandfather, Captain Duncan Graham, a Scotchman by birth, who had seen service in the British Army,...
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The Soul of the Indian: An InterpretationThe Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. It teaches us to be thankful, to be united, and to love one another! We never quarrel...
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Old Indian LegendsOld Indian Legends IKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round...
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Indian BoyhoodIndian Boyhood WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away...
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Indian Heroes and Great ChieftainsIndian Heroes and Great Chieftains EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in...
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Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis StevensonWhen a popular writer dies, the question it has become the fashion with a nervous generation to ask is the question, Will he live? There was no idler question, none more hopelessly impossible and unprofitable to answer. It is one of the...
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John BarleycornJohn Barleycorn It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of...
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United States Declaration of IndependenceUnited States Declaration of Independence in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which...
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Remember the AlamoRemember the Alamo CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER II. ANTONIA AND ISABEL. CHAPTER III. BUILDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTER IV. THE SHINING BANDS OF LOVE. CHAPTER V. A FAMOUS BARBECUE. CHAPTER VI. ROBERT WORTH IS DISARMED. CHAPTER VII. A MEETING AT...
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Eothen Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastEothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastAt Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of women still shone in the...
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Records of a Family of EngineersRecords of a Family of EngineersFrom the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times...
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Trinity SiteTrinity Site On Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever when the first atomic bomb was tested in an isolated area of the New Mexico desert. Conducted in the final month of World War II by the top-secret Manhattan Engineer District,...
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The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeThe Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke I Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him...
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A Brief History of the InternetA Brief History of the Internet - The Bright Side: The Dark SideMichael Hart called it NeoMass Production [TM] in 1971 and published the U.S. Declaration of Independence on the and no one was listeningor were they? ???careful!!!! If the governments, universities or colleges...
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