Boone: A Biography (76 page)

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“
The figure who most enduringly embodies
” Annette Kolodny,
The Land before Her
, 28.

448
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Enjoyed the lonely vigorous, harmless days
” George Gordon, Lord Byron,
Byron’s Don Juan
, Eighth canto, stanza 5, lines 64–65.

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An organization for boys
and “
a kind of no-man’s land
” Richard Taylor, “Daniel Boone as American Icon,” 518, 522.

449
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The figure and the myth-narrative
” Slotkin, 22.

449
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Boone’s stature, paradoxically, was largely unaffected
” Nelson L. Dawson, “Introduction,” 1.

449
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But if a man would be alone
” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” in
Emerson’s Prose and Poetry
, 28.

449
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teams it
, farms
it
, peddles
it
” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” in
Emerson’s Prose and Poetry
, 132.

450
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Prayer is contemplation of the facts
” Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” 132.

450
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles,” in
Emerson’s Prose and Poetry
, 181.

450
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon
” Emerson, “Nature,” 31.

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[A] fact is true poetry
” Emerson, “Nature,” 54.

450
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In the tranquil landscape
” Emerson, “Nature,” 29.

450
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In each case, the image of Boone
” Slotkin, 313.

451
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I love to be alone
” Henry David Thoreau,
Walden
, 135.

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I wish to speak a word for Nature
” Henry David Thoreau, “Walking,” in
Excursions
, 161.

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I believe that there is a subtile magnetism
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 175.

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The future lies that way to me
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 176–77.

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I should be ashamed to think
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 183.

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The West of which I speak is but
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 185.

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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 185.

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When I would recreate myself
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 190.

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I found my account in climbing a tree
” Thoreau, “Walking,” 210.

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There was a child went forth
” Walt Whitman, “There Was a Child Went Forth,” in
Whitman
, 491.

453
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Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt
” Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” in
Whitman
, 196.

454
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The fur trapper, or Mountain Man
” Henry Nash Smith,
The Virgin Land
, 88.

454
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The Open Road goes to the used-car lot
” Lewis Simpson, “Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain,” in
Selected Poems
, 119–20.

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[Bartram’s] record bears the distinctive markings
” Slotkin, 325.

455
“
Boone was a living example
” Maurice Manning,
A Companion for Owls
, 125.

455
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an uncouth place like Kentucky
” Manning, 128.

455
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I knew a man, a common farmer, the father
” Walt Whitman, “I Sing the Body Electric,” in
Whitman
, 252–53.

456
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From this hour I ordain myself loos’d
” Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” in
Whitman
, 299–300.

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The earth never tires
” Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” 302.

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Allons! the road is before us
” Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” 307.

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