The Queen of the Swamp: And Other Plain Americans
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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(Forgotten Books, Oct. 11, 2017)
Excerpt from The Queen of the Swamp: And Other Plain AmericansSome of these stories were written more than a dozen years ago. They have been gathered in from the Atlantic Monthly, Har per's Bazar, Outing, the Independent, the Delineator, the Chicago Tribune, the late Chicago Graphic, and Lippincott's Maga zine, by courteous permission of the editors; and revised year after year. Many of them embody phases of American life which have entirely passed away, or are yet to be found in secluded spots like eddies along the mar gin oi the nation's progress. Their honest preservation of middle western experience makes them, at least in the author's eyes, seem worthy themselves of preservation.The Puritan and the Church of England took possession of the Atlantic seaboard, north and south; and Jesuit and Recollet missionaries carried the cross through Can ada and down the Mississippi. But the pio neer evangelist of the Middle West was the Methodist itinerant.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 imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.