Mockingbird Song
of scouts in front of their company. Suddenly they ‘‘flush[ed] a couple of Italian officers. They should have surrendered’’ but ...
Audie Murphy displays his medals, ca. s. Universal Studios promotional photo, courtesy The Audie Murphy Research Foundation. ...
hunt. This enterprise was young York’s great calling and delight. He had be- come an excellent shot while still quite small. His ...
Alvin York posing in uniform back home, Pall Mall, Tennessee, . Note the Medal of Honor and Croix de Guerre on his chest. Co ...
his moral doubts to his company commander, who took him seriously and sent him to talk with the battalion commander, a New Engla ...
community. In , gray and a bit portly, he was invited to hang out with Gary Cooper while Cooper prepared to portray him inSe ...
It is easy to sentimentalize subsistence hunting, even while acknowl- edging the desperation young Audie Murphy and many boys an ...
ing chapter titled ‘‘Pleasures.’’ Southerners embraced leisure, fun, and self- indulgence. They adored dancing, drinking (rum, b ...
History include (in addition to much paper) a heavy box of assorted steel spurs for gamecocks. Resembling miniature sabers and d ...
east of the Appalachians, then east of the Mississippi and beyond. Much the same occurred with eastern panthers and wildcats. Be ...
and church dues and to buy coffee and other things their climate would not permit them to grow. Clouds of parakeets descending r ...
celebrated such enormous expansions of market hunting. Most men of substance and influence, however—especially those who identif ...
in red flannel jackets and straw hats with broad ‘‘ribands.’’ Elliott had been a handsome man when Thomas Sully painted his port ...
taking down fences on the way. The judge seemed outraged, but jurors ‘‘are exceedingly benevolent in such cases’’ (–). Elli ...
devil-fish, giving the whole weight of his body to the force of the stroke!’’ As the manta accelerated and the harpoon line tigh ...
That season the mantas were abundant; the strikes, rides, and kills, thrilling. Elliott’s bloodlust, however, seems appalling. F ...
Her dearest treasure lost through the dim night, Wanders perplex’d and darkling bleats in vain. In his own self-mocking narrativ ...
out a coil of rope and extended an oar. Tom, brought onboard again, stood and ‘‘gave three hearty cheers,’’ assuring men in the ...
wash his face, was warmly welcomed by his young wife at the end of the day. On another occasion at Chee-Ha, William and his comp ...
quently St. Johns River). Logically, they may have named one of the smaller streams between San Juan and the Atlantic Rio Matanz ...
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