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Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays

Chapter 48: FOOTNOTES
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A mixed collection of travel sketches and personal essays that records journeys, crowded cross-country passage, island life, and visits to European landscapes while balancing concrete reportage with reflective comment. Vivid, sensory scenes of transit and social encounter sit beside nostalgic memories and compact meditations on dreams, mortality, charity, and the small vanities of life. Pieces range from anecdote and landscape portrait to philosophical digression, linked by a conversational, observant voice that shifts between wit, melancholy, and quiet moral attention to people and places encountered on the road.

FOOTNOTES

[8] Please pronounce Arkansaw, with the accent on the first.

[95] See An Inland Voyage, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1878.

[141] Wild cherries.

[202] i.e. in the pages of Scribner’s Magazine (1888).

[212] From A Book of Verses by William Ernest Henley. D. Nutt, 1888.