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Winter among the Mandans

Chapter 5 Chapter 7 Winter among the Mandans Before finally selecting the spot on which to build their winter quarters, Lewis and Clark held councils with the chiefs of the…

Lewis & Clark: Winter among the Mandans

by NoahBrooks From the Tetons to the MandansFrom Fort Mandan to the YellowstoneWinter among the Mandans Before finally selecting the spot on which to build their winter…

Hartley, Marsden

(Encyclopedia) Hartley, Marsden, 1877–1943, American painter widely considered the first great American modernist of the 20th cent., b. Lewiston, Maine. He was educated in Cleveland, but early in his…

Carpentersville

(Encyclopedia) Carpentersville, village (2020 pop. 36,494), Kane co., NE Ill., on the Fox River, settled 1834, platted 1851, inc. 1887. In a…

1949 Academy Awards

The 1949 Academy Awards were presented March 23, 1950 at the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.Best Motion PictureAll the King's Men (Robert Rossen Productions; Columbia)Battleground (…

Sara Teasdale: A Boy

A BoyOut of the noise of tired people working, Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead, His beauty met me like a fresh wind blowing, Clean boyish beauty and high-held head.Eyes that…

A Boy's Will: Waiting

by Robert Frost Asking for RosesIn a ValeWaiting Afield at Dusk He arrives at the turn of the year. WHAT things for dream there are when spectre-like, Moving among tall haycocks lightly…

A Boy's Will: In a Vale

by Robert Frost WaitingA Dream PangIn a Vale Out of old longings he fashions a story. WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale By a misty fen that rang all night, And thus it was the…

A Boy's Will: In Neglect

by Robert Frost A Dream PangThe Vantage PointIn Neglect He is scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach. THEY leave us so to the way we took, As two in whom they were proved mistaken,…

A Boy's Will: Mowing

by Robert Frost The Vantage PointGoing for WaterMowing He takes up life simply with the small tasks. THERE was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe…