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Poems of the covered wagons

Title
Poems of the covered wagons / edited by Alfred Powers.
Publication
Portland, Oregon : Pacific Publishing House, 1947.

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Additional Authors
  • Powers, Alfred
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
  • Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957.
  • Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913.
  • Thayer, Claudius, 1854-1923.
  • Pacific Publishing House.
  • Binfords & Mort.
  • Marc Simmons Library.
  • Southwestern Writers Collection.
Description
142, [2] pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Wagon trains > Poetry
  • Overland journeys to the Pacific > Poetry
  • Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Poetry
  • Poetry of places
  • Wagon trains
  • Pioneers
  • Overland journeys to the Pacific
  • Travel
  • West (U.S.) > Description and travel > Poetry
  • West United States
Genre/Form
  • Poetry
  • poetry.
  • Poetry.
  • Poésie.
Note
  • "Illustrated with old drawings."
  • Frontispiece illustration, "Crossing the Prairies", signed: Courtesy of Binfords & Mort.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography included in "Acknowledgements" (p. [143]-[144])
Contents
Coming of the white man / William P. Burns -- Western lines / Walt Whitman -- Bison track / Bayard Taylor -- Prairies / William Cullen Bryant -- I hear the tread of pioneers / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The pioneer / James Russell Lowell -- The movers / William Dean Howells -- Route of the emigrant wagons / Henry W. Longfellow -- Crossing the plains / Belle W. Cooke -- Pioneer of fifty-three / Mrs. S. Watson Hamilton -- Emigrant remembers / T.J. Kirk -- The Oregon Trail / Joseph W. Dorr -- Oliver Wiggins / Stanley Vestal -- Lone Elm Camp Ground / Kansas Historical Collections -- Oregon Trail (1843) / Arthur Guiterman -- Along Indian trails / S.N.M. Byers -- Oregon Trail: 1851 / James Marshall -- Across the wide plains / W.T. Rigdon -- Exodus for Oregon / Joaquin Miller -- The wagon in front / Florence Knight Nitschke -- The pioneer ox / Sam L. Simpson -- Road to Oregon / Mrs. Elizabeth Markham -- The crossing / John C. Almack -- Through Naches Pass / Cornelius Rogers -- The handcart Expedition / Palimpsest -- West of Casper, Wyoming / Alan Swallow -- Upper California, O! / John Taylor -- Exploring / Thales H. Haskell -- Western wagons / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet -- Ho, for California-O! / Old song -- Pike County chorus / John Phoenix -- From earth's four quarters / M.V. -- Men of forty-nine / Joaquin Miller -- Forty-niner in the desert / Benj. F. Taylor -- Beans / Robert Patterson -- Yellow fever / O.P.Q. -- Westward / Velma Caldwell Melville -- My New Year's guests / R.M. Daggett -- Ballad of the forty-niner / Old song -- San Francisco-1853 / California songster, 1855 -- Buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- The wagon train / Sam L. Simpson -- Nebraska -- Nevada / Frances Fuller victor -- Thirsty ox-teams / Mrs. S. Watson Hamilton -- Sultry travel / James Oppenheim -- Sagebrush / Bert Huffman -- Tumble weeds / Dell Gronnert -- Arid lands / Herbert Bashford -- Nebraska City-Fort Kearney Trail, 1858-1870 / A.E.S. -- Babies of the pioneers / Eunice W. Luckey -- Old rifle / Ben Hur Lampman -- William Brown / Joaquin Miller -- To the far frontier / S.A. Clarke -- Song of the first settlers / Howard McKinley Corning -- Plow in the load / Donald Burnie -- Hudson's Bay lost to them / Donald Burnie -- Prayer and song / Joaquin Miller -- Let me too / Mary Carolyn Davies -- Linchpin wagon / Carson Masiker -- Old camp ground / J.H. Cradlebaugh -- West and west / Abigail Scott Duniway -- Old emigrant road / Carrie Blake Morgan -- Lords of themselves / Frances Fuller Victor -- Wagon trails / Mrs. Pauline Henderson -- Vanished trail / O.C. Applegate -- Land where dreams come true / J.H. Cradlebaugh -- Haunted road to the west / Glenn Wood Dresbach -- At Fort Laramie twenty years after / Abigail Scott Duniway -- Long road he blazed / Claude Thayer -- Pioneers / Badger Clark -- Abandoned Conestoga / Verne Bright.
LCCN
47012303
OCLC
  • ocm02938792
  • 2938792
  • SCSB-652044
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library