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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Tony Pettyjohn grew up in a textile town, Maple Grove, North Carolina, raised by a good-timing, single mother in the home of an abusive grandfather until sentenced to reform school for stealing a blouse for his mother's birthday. After release he worked in the cotton mill in Maple Grove, beginning as a cloth boy and rising to loom fixer/ foreman until sent to prison for a murder his mother committed. The Loom Fixer explores living and working ...

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Excerpt from The Maiden of the Mist: An Indian Legend of Niagara, Origin of the Great Paintings, the Red Man's Fact and the White Man's FancyBut halted he at length, And down he sank. O'er come at last, His object almost won, Tacoma's Wigwam stood in view Beneath the setting sun.And there some warriors found him At the breaking of the morn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a...

Excerpt from The City of Plague: And Other PoemsBrings back youth's scenes with brighter glow, Those scenes we love so well.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing i...

Excerpt from The Maiden of the Mist: An Indian Legend of Niagara, Origin of the Great Paintings, the Red Man's Fact and the White Man's Fancy The Maid of the Mist There's an ancient Indian Legend By their weird old women told, Of a deed of love and daring, By a maiden brave and bold, Where Niagara's waters sparkled, And Niagara's thunders rolled, In their days of vanished glory In their pristine days of old. In the valley of the Mohawk...

Excerpt from The City of Plague: And Other Poems My Boyhood's Pride! Companion of youthful glee! While memory dwells mid scenes of yore, My heart goes back to thee, And youthful hours, when innocence Ruled every thought and word, Come to my heart and make it beat, As when in youth it stirred In throbbing answer to the tones Of Friendship, Love and Truth, Oh, happy hours! oh, joyous scenes! Oh, grand, immortal youth! Y ar after year may ...