Name/Title
West Walking YankeeEntry/Object ID
2023.203.002Description
A narrative poem of the American frontier...starting with the Elizabethan voyages of discovery and ending with the conquest of California and the rush for gold. It is also the subtler story of the molding of the American character. In its fervent poetic pattern it will recall Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body". The author has spent more than ten years of research adn writing on this poem and its historical accuracy is not the least of its distinctions.
The Ocean Trail
The Golden Hind
Raleigh
The Yankee Trail
The Cold Spring
Adam Scott
Post's Journey
Allan Kemp
Conestoga Wagon
First Encounter
Tussey's Gap
Rolling On
Martin Wald's Story
Ballad of the Lone Hunter
The Healing Waters
Pittsburgh
The Ohio Flood
To the South Pass
To the Arikara Forts
First Rendezvous
The Open Trail
Let's Go. Stretch-out
The Old and New
Here is Arcady
Alcade Grande
New Helvetia
Coloma
Squatter's Gold
The End of West
Physical Description: Tan cloth covered book in black and white dust jacket, heavily stained. Front image is of a man with a rifle in the mountains. Book measures approximately 5.5 x 7.5.Collection
Local AuthorsBook Details
Author
Chapin, HenryPublisher
Howell, Soskin & CompanyDate Published
1940Publication Language
English