Henrietta Tindal, Once a Week, Series 1, Volume VII… (1862)
“ The whooping cranes on their broad white wings, The beaver haunting the water springs, The porcupine in the cypress trees, Tribes of the river, and air, and seas— All are his birthright, the bold and free! Sometimes, among his brave joys, will he, Sadly and kindly, remember me? ”
Henrietta Tindal, Once a Week, Series 1, Volume VII… (1862)
“ This island was once situated in the midst of the Falls of St. Anthony, on the Mississippi; it has disappeared long since, but its site is said to be haunted at early morning by the spirit of a young Indian, who perished there ages before white men crossed the Atlantic. She was distracted by the faithlessness of her husband, and embarking in her canoe with her first-born infant, drifted down the current of the mighty river, seeking death, which met her at the Falls, within sight of her assembled tribe. ”
