Excerpt from The Forest Rose: A Tale of the Frontier

About this time he wrote a poem The Corsair, which appeared in The Odd Fellows' Journal attracting marked attention.

Later, he lived in Philadelphia and Baltimore, but in 1842 moved to Cincinnati where in reality his career as a writer, actively began.

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