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David William Duck is an old man living in Aurora, Illinois, where he is universally respected. He is commonly known, however, as “Dead Duck.” “In…

First, among these I count the great chief Pontiac, who led the rebellion of the mid-western tribes against the English after the French had abandoned…

The history of that awful struggle is well known I have not the intention to record it here, but only to relate some part of…

This narrative begins with the death of its hero. Silas Deemer died on the I6th day of July 1863, and two days later his remains…

The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst. Editha sat looking out into the…

I One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road…

Vagabonds the world would no doubt call many of my doorstep acquaintance, and I do not attempt to defend them all together against the world,…

Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial. In the year 1859 a…

‘I am not so superstitious as some of your physician’s men of science, as you are pleased to be called,’ said Hawver, replying to an…

“In the summer of 1881,” I met a man named James H. Conway, a resident of Franklin, Tennessee. He was visiting San Francisco for his…

The little girl came into her papa’s study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg…

Away up in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains, in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, is a beautiful little valley through which flows the east fork…