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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
the long, long Trail—; commemorate its leading events. In general, as over against sentimental, romantic, or adventure pieces, ballads dealing with historical events or important movements occupy but a small corer in American popular song. Captain Kidd has retained currency in New England and in the West, and the collector still comes at times upon ballads of the British highwayman, Dick Turpin. Some widely diffused songs, their authorship and origin now lost, which reflect emigrant and fror spread before the pioneer were on many a tongue, the origin of the Indians was live issue, and wiseacres here and there identified them with the lost tribes. It was a day when men still dreamed of and dug for treasures buried by Spaniards or by Kidd. The Masonic-Morgan mystery and the Fox sisters found in Western New York a local habitation and people were still alive there who recalled the Jerusalem of Jemima Wilkinson. Mesmerism and the miraculous were of common interest, and here and th
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Keats, 33, 35, 43, 44 Keckley, Mrs., 351 Keene, Laura, 268, 270 Keimer, Samuel, 445 Keith, 535 Kellermann, Bernhard, 582 Kelley, O. H., 356 Kellogg, E., 437 Kelly, Myra, 420 Kelpius, John, 573 Kendall, G. W., 132, 133, 137 Kennan, George, 165 Kent, James, 402 Kentons, the, 84 Kenyon, Charles, 290, 294 Key, Francis Scott, 494 Key to Genesis, 529 Key to the Apocalypse, 526 Key to the Scriptures, 525 Key to Uncle Tom's cabin, a, 71 Khaled, 88 Kidd, Captain, 517 Kindling, 290, 294 King, Charles, 86 King, Clarence, 158 King, Grace Elizabeth, 597 King Lear, 483 King Noanett, 91 King's College. See Columbia University King's College (London), 474 Kingsley, 70 Kipling, Rudyard, 10, 12, 315, 316, 419, 570 Kirby, 401 Kirchoff, T., 581 Kirk, John Foster, 188-9 Kirkland, Pres., 455 Kit Carson's life and adventures, 150 Kittredge, G. L., 462, 464, 484 Klein, Charles, 281, 286-7, 289, 293 Klein Deutschlan