Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Curtis” in chapter 5, page 51 of Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant:
...when light unexpectedly came from the West.
General Grant stands the central figure in that light.
To follow him, a survey of the country must be taken.
Through the gallant Lyon and Blair and Curtis and Pope, Secession presently lost Missouri.
This made safe Illinois across the river; for
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