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Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-1868) was a judge, politician and author. The Green Mountain Boys is the most famous of his romantic adventure novels, and was first published in 1839.
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'Tis a rough land of rock, and stone, and tree, where breathes no castled rock, nor cabin'd slave; Where thoughts, and hands, and tongues are free, And friends will find a welcome - foes a grave.
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Inscribed to the Honorable Heman Allen, Late U.S. Minister to Chili.
To no one can this work be more appropriately dedicated than to the distinguished son of one of that intelligent, enterprising, and fearless band of brothers, The Allens, to whose energetic characters and varied services, Vermont is so deeply indebted for her existence as an independent State, and for the foundation of her present prosperity.
Eerste woorden
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Preface: The following pages are intended to embody and illustrate a portion of the more romantic incidents which actually occurred in the early settlements of Vermont, with the use of but little more fiction, than was deemed sufficient to weave them together, and impart to the tissue a connected interest.
Those who have wandered along the banks of the Otter Creek, in search of the beautiful and picturesque, may have extended their rambles, perhaps to lake Dunmore, which lies embosomed among the hills a few miles to the eastward of that quiet stream.
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Laatste woorden
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And lastly, the miscreant Sherwood, who through the inscrutable ways of Providence, was permitted to live, Cain-like, to old age, found his way, at the close of the Revolution, to the common refuge of American tories in Canada, where he finished his days in poverty and disgrace, always obtaining credit by flattery and falsehood, always abusing it by fraud and treachery, and living, indeed, abhorred by men, and seemingly accursed of God.
Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-1868) was a judge, politician and author. The Green Mountain Boys is the most famous of his romantic adventure novels, and was first published in 1839.
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