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Excerpt from The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices This volume is the first of a series designed to present a survey of Western Liter ature - to make known who have been, and who are the poets, orators, and prose writers of the States' which comprise what is properly known, in American history and geography, as The West; and to preserve, in a form convenient for reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.