Historic towns of the Southern States (1904) (14597960359)

Identifier: historictownsofsou00powe (find matches)

Title: Historic towns of the Southern States

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866

Subjects: Cities and towns

Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons

Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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to thevarious writers who travelled its waters. First and foremost among these was John J.Audubon who came in 1809, previous to theopening of navigation by steamboat. Reportsof the happy wilds of Kentucky had reachedhim in his Pennsylvania home subsequent tohis return from Paris, where he had been so-journing as an art student. His passion forornithology drove him to the West, and thehour he left Pittsburof marked the beofinninsf ofa new era in his wonderful career as a nat-uralist. The Ohio charmed him, and, locatingat Louisville, he collected specimens of everybird that could be found in forest or field. In1810, Alexander Wilson, the distinguishedScotch-American ornithologist, traversed theOhio and Mississippi valleys on a mission sim-ilar to Audubons. Stopping for a season atthe Falls city he chanced to become ac-quainted with Audubon, and in the course ofconversation the two exchanged ideas andwere astonished to discover that they werepursuing the same line of w^ork. This meeting

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520 Louisville was memorable, for it awakened Audubon toa full realization of his genius and helpedWilson unspeakably. Indeed, so far-reachingwere its results that in order to appreciatethem one has first to familiarize himself withsome of the subtlest tendencies and movementsof the nineteenth century. When steamboat navioration beofan on theOhio (1812-16) the rush of emigration com-menced anew. Thirty-nine English familiessent Henry Bradshaw Fearon over in 1816 tomake a careful study of places and people inthe Ohio Valley. He was an intelligent, prac-tical observer, and his descriptions of the in-habitants and social conditions of Louisvilleare strikingly suggestive of Dickens. Thereis a vein of sarcasm in his observations, dueto the fact that he has little sympathy with thecommercial ambition that seemed to possessthe people to the exclusion of higher pursuits.Every one seemed self-absorbed and bent onmoney-making ; even the best hotels were con-ducted on the crowding policy. The pe

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1904

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