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First Line: Thin high nose. Furrowed cheeks
Last Line: They listen respectfully.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pioneers; Heritage; Heredity


A DIRGE; OVER A COMPANION KILLED BY COMANCHES AND BURIED ON PRAIRIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy wife shall wait
Last Line: Must leave thee here alone. Once more farewell!
Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A PIONEER'S DREAM, by GEORGE D. CRAIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The owl takes a meal from a rodent hare
Last Line: From a winter's night ... An old man's dream.
Subject(s): Pioneers


A SETTLER'S GRAVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far on the outflung headland thou dost lie
Last Line: And in the boughs above the redbirds nest?
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Nature; Pioneers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Tell me a tale of the airly days
Last Line: As they did in the airly days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Past; Pioneers


AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods
Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky.
Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones


AN EARLY PIONEER, by MAMIE A. MELOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the soft, dark velvet of this case
Last Line: That spread from nineveh to now!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers


CARMELITA, by MIRABEAU BONAPARTE LAMAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O carmelita, know ye not
Last Line: O donna carmelita!
Subject(s): Pioneers; Texas Revolution (1835-1836); West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


CHEROKEE STRIP (THE RUN OF '93), by BESS TRUITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heat! Glare! Thirst!
Last Line: Iron of endurance flows in their veins!
Subject(s): Pioneers


CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands
Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.)


CROSSING THE PLAINS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What great yoked brutes with briskets low
Last Line: Kings even in captivity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Variant Title(s): Ship In The Desert
Subject(s): Animals; Patriotism; Pioneers


DEPARTURE OF THE PIONEER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away from the hill-side, the lake, and the hamlet
Last Line: And moan o'er the spot where the hunter is laid.
Subject(s): Pioneers


DOWN TO THE CIMARRON, by MAURINE HALLIBURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Big ben barley and little sam coe
Last Line: Came down to the cimarron years ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcgee, Mrs. M.h.
Subject(s): Cimarron River; Pioneers


EVENING OF A TERRITORIAL FOURTH, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The location gang of engineers
Last Line: Of the pioneers, of the south dakota to be.
Subject(s): Flags - United States; National Songs; Pioneers; South Dakota; American Flag; National Anthems


FACE TO FACE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never to be lonely like that
Subject(s): Pioneers; Reunions


FACE TO FACE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never to be lonely like that
Last Line: Burning under the bleached scalp; behind dry lips %a loaded gun
Subject(s): Pioneers; Reunions


FAREWELL TO IDAHO, by H. F. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all ye heroes of the land
Last Line: And see the country through.
Subject(s): Idaho; Pioneers; Time


FOR JEAN VINCENT D'ANNADIE, BARON ST.-CASTIN, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take heart, monsieur, four-fifths of this province
Last Line: As you cross yourself %and reach for your scalping knife
Subject(s): Pioneers


GREAT-AUNT REBECCA, by ELIZABETH BREWSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember my mother's aunt rebecca
Last Line: Soft as silk and tough as that thin wire %they use for snaring rabbits
Subject(s): Aunts; Pioneers


HOLDEN CHURCH AND CEMETERY (KENYON, MINNESOTA), by GERTRUDE HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today my feet have walked on sacred sod
Last Line: The heritage they left has timeless worth.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churches; Pioneers; Graveyards; Cathedrals


HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground
Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own.
Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HYMN OF PROGRESS, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dauntless as the pioneers / that pressed
Last Line: Moving, ever, with the dawn.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore


IN MEMORIAM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: True builders of the state were they
Last Line: As toilers, friends—as mothers, wives.
Subject(s): Memory; Pioneers


IN THE FOREST, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon we entered in the woods
Last Line: But this stranger no one knew.
Variant Title(s): The Arrival
Subject(s): Forests; Pioneers; Woods


IN THE VAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: True touchstone lives are these, and test our
Last Line: Think we find health, and wealth, and fame -- behind!
Subject(s): Pioneers


JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds!
Last Line: The stalwart jason lee.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States


JOE; AN ETCHING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A meadow brown; across the yonder edge
Last Line: The axe of the pioneer, the settler's plough.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Children; Homesteaders; Labor & Laborers; Pioneers; Childhood; Work; Workers


JOHN FILSON, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John filson was a pedagogue - / a pioneer was he
Last Line: Who never had a grave.
Subject(s): Filson, John (1747-1788); Ohio; Pioneers


JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom
Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel.
Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LAMENT FOR PIONEERS, by VERNE BRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the east they came, the strong, wise men
Last Line: Of dream and song, tilled now of the tiller, death!
Subject(s): Pioneers


LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a wide and far extended plain
Last Line: Of johny green and charming larabelle.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers


MEMORIES OF PIONEER DAYS, by LUCY BURGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you remember the blizzard, brother?
Last Line: As I think of faithful old riley and wise old bill.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ODE TO ASTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On columbia's broadened breast
Last Line: While you safely guard the gateway of the west.
Subject(s): Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To western woods and lonely plains
Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew.
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States


PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams
Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all.
Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips


PASSING OF THE PIONEER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Open out the window, let him face the west
Last Line: Far he is faring on a new frontier.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PIONEER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The very old woman sits softly
Last Line: She will fall softly asleep...
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Old Age; Pioneers; Women


PIONEER GRAVEYARD, by BLANCHE KENDALL MCKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The path is over-grown with crumpled leaves
Last Line: In death each soul becomes a pioneer!
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pioneers; Graveyards


PIONEER WOMAN, by ELLA ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Theresa martha's firm but slender hands
Last Line: And wove with song her gentleness and verve.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Women


PIONEER WOMAN, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: One thought of ivory and precious lace
Last Line: And worshiped beauty by a candle's light.
Variant Title(s): Pioneer Mother
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers


PIONEER WOMAN, by ELIZABETH DE MARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want my own to come to me
Last Line: When lo, my heart's at rest.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers


PIONEER WOMAN (FOR LAURA INGALLS WILDER), by JANET RUTH HELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were born in a wisconsin I never knew
Last Line: Arousing us with your courage %and pioneer determination
Subject(s): Pioneers


PIONEER: THE VIGNETTE OF AN OIL-FIELD, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the wagons have gone by
Last Line: With church bells quietly ringing!
Subject(s): Oil Fields; Pioneers


PIONEERING AMERICA, by MYRA C. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the pioneer?
Last Line: The pioneer at his resurrection.
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America


PIONEERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken wagon wheel that rots away beside the
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Pioneers


PIONEERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: If dey're walkin' on de road side, an' dey're bote in love togeder
Last Line: Worl' wance more.
Subject(s): Pioneers


PIONEERS, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As mountain peaks that tower above the plain
Last Line: The pioneers, who run not with the herd.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Solitude; Loneliness


PIONEERS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: They said: 'now here is gold'
Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W.
Subject(s): Pioneers


PIONEERS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came of bold and roving stock that would not fixed / abide
Last Line: The founders of our nation's life, the brave old pioneers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Pioneers


PIONEERS, by PETER WILD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pioneers are walking through the woods
Last Line: In the folds of a gaudy sunset, %always insisting they're royalty
Subject(s): Pioneers


PIONEERS OF DETROIT, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In ancient days, on every hand
Last Line: To his own happy land.
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Past; Pioneers


PIONEERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dakota pioneers, / your valiant spirit lingers in the west
Last Line: We dedicate to you!
Subject(s): Pioneers; South Dakota


PIONEERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lure of the wide expanses, lure of the sunset land
Last Line: Smiting the human harp.
Subject(s): Pioneers; South Dakota


PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come my tan-faced children
Last Line: Pioneers! O pioneers!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PRAIRIE FOLKS: PIONEERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They rise to mastery of wind and snow
Last Line: As did the indian and the buffalo.
Variant Title(s): Prairie Pioneers
Subject(s): Pioneers


REQUIEM FOR A PIONEER MOTHER, by MARGARET DELANEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You tended prairie home lights far away
Last Line: Safe in his hands all dark frontiers are passed.
Subject(s): Pioneers


SONG OF THE SETTLERS, by JESSAMYN WEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Freedom is a hard-bought thing
Last Line: Let it be the way we die!
Subject(s): Freedom; Pioneers


SONG OF THE WAGON-WHIP, by SAMUEL CRON CRONWRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great buck-wagon, our 'desert ship
Last Line: And the pioneer comes with the heralding voice of the mighty%wagon-whip
Subject(s): Pioneers


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUTHERFORD MCDOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought me ambrotypes
Last Line: Under the sun!
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pioneers


TEMPEST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine that july morning: cape henry and virginia
Last Line: They might chart out that voyage to a shore %on which the nation they had planted would in time aris
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE (1790-1880), by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, he was a mountaineer
Last Line: And my buffalo have found me.
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE CIRCUIT RIDER, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God tramps on through the scourging rains
Last Line: Once more, god built a world—our west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Clergy; Methodism; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Southwest; Pacific States


THE EAGLE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestic bird, you soar through our-flung sky
Last Line: The nation's symbol, die by vandal hand?
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Pioneers


THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The footsteps of a hundred years
Last Line: Immortalize their lives sublime!
Subject(s): Ohio; Patriotism; Pioneers


THE LONELY SETTLER, FR. THE RISING VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What noble courage must their hearts have fired
Last Line: And torn from those who had no power to save.
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood
Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home!
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out on the long trail. The foam drifts back
Last Line: These pioneers.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE LONG TRAIL: THE PIONEERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thro' the breaking wood
Last Line: With its call to new days.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mothers of our forest-land!
Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground."
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America


THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust
Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE PILGRIMAGE (OF SEVEN AND SEVENTY SISTERS), by ANNALEONE DAVIS PATTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the silver-ribboned highway
Last Line: Truly serves the lord.
Subject(s): Crusades; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Pioneers; Sisters


THE PIONEER, by HENRY MEADE BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With a sigh for the unknown land fevering his
Last Line: To build the state and lift the law for light.
Subject(s): California; Pioneers


THE PIONEER, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, he never can tell
Last Line: The world about.
Subject(s): Death; Pioneers; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE PIONEER, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a servant boy, and he
Last Line: The tale of the early pioneer.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Pioneers; Dead, The


THE PIONEER PASSES, by EMIL O. TOLONEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The summer sky was purpling overhead
Last Line: And bear the brunt of winds that blow unkindly.
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE PIONEER'S FIELD, by RICHARD BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: You walk a sacred ground, tread gently here
Last Line: The fearless planter's worthy monument.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Pioneers; Sacrifices; Leander


THE PIONEERS, by HERBERT BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale in the east a filmy moon
Last Line: Where over the sombre pine trees the sea shines blue.
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE PIONEERS, by JOHN GALEN HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The foot speaks
Last Line: For comrades there behind.
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by EDWARD EVERETT DALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I see a prairie schooner
Last Line: With the tongue a-pointing west.
Subject(s): Conestoga Wagons; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Prairie Schooners; Southwest; Pacific States


THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the prairie singer
Last Line: I am the prairie singer.
Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains


THE SETTLER: AMERICA IN THE MAKING, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His echoing ax the settler swung
Last Line: A nation's freedom won.
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America


THE SETTLERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two stranger youths in the far west
Last Line: The acacia-trees!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Home; Love; Pioneers; Silence


THE SONG OF THE PIONEER, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would sing a song for the pioneer
Last Line: To the honored pioneer.
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine that july morning: cape henry and virginia
Subject(s): Pioneers


THE WILD-BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All along the brazos river
Last Line: Was the fertile land of texas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pioneers; Texas; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO THE PIONEERS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How swift this sand, gold-laden, runs!
Last Line: Sierra's snow-topt battle tents.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Pioneers; Gold Rush; Forty-niners


UNNAMED, by BELLE CHAPMAN MORRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sunk ankle-deep amid the quiet grass
Last Line: "beloved of johannes vandermere."
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pioneers; Graveyards


WELL WATER, by FRAZEE TUCKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring me a drink
Last Line: The water from the northwest corner of the well.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Water


WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze
Last Line: But we're going west, tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States


WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze
Last Line: But we're going west tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.)


WESTWARD HO!, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What strength! What strife! What rude unrest!
Last Line: In foremost battle, quite aside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


WESTWARD PAGEANT, by LUCILLE BURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always the westward pageant; always man
Last Line: Aye! It is so! -- march on, o caravan!
Subject(s): Caravans; Dreams; Pioneers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills
Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States