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The life and adventures of a river otter in the East Tennessee mountains.

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...A young girl grows up quickly on an East Tennessee mountain farm and learns the value of family and neighbors when she has to take over her Grandmothers duties....

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...ISSIPPI 53 MISSOURI 54 NEVADA 56 NEW JERSEY 58 NEW YORK 60 OHIO 63 OKLAHOMA 65 OREGON 67 PENNSYLVANIA 69 RHODE ISLAND 72 SOUTH CAROLINA 73 TENNESSEE 75 TEXAS 77 UTAH 80 VERMONT 81 VIRGINIA 82 WASHINGTON 83 WASHINGTON, DC 87 WISCONSIN 89 WYOMING 90 ADDITIONAL TRAVEL SOURCES 92 NATIONAL PARKS AND GOLDEN ACCESS PASS 96 SHARE YOUR OWN STORY OF DISCOVERING...

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...labama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after the attack on F... ... Party. Lincoln's vice-president, Johnson, actually was a Democrat and hailed from Tennessee, a seceding state. He was the only senator from a sece... ...ction started long before the war ended, in Union-occupied Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slave tax was an important source of state revenue in...

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...ause the surface is so seldom perfectly level. There are hundred of men in East Tennessee that will testify to this fact from actual experience. Som... ...l , and he has certificates from a number of as intelligent men as there are in Tennessee. I cannot give you, in this communication, any idea of the...

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... covering his speech, which he gave at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, 160 Tennessee. From the moment I stood in the security line, until the time I...

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...d take a shot o’ the drink o’ the night. Tonight, its good ol’ fashioned Tennessee whiskey,” the hunting man clarifed. Vincent realized that he had ...

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...mmunity work with an ideal of service 43. Steward tries to help Sammy Lane and ends up resented 44. Steward and Doug Thomasek visit a ghost town in Tennessee 45. Brandt observes a strip mine demonstration and assaults a deputy 46. Brandt spends the night in county jail with Birl Poling 47. Brandt reads an editorial by Fletcher Bourne advising caution 48. Brandt recei...

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... hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier.” He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo. This narrative attempts faithfully to record the influences under which David Crockett was reared and the in...

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...Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman cook. In 1897, he was hired as principal chef for th...

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... as quickly as a lion snapping the neck of a gazelle! THE JOURNEY TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE DARK CLOUDS BURST from the night sky and torrents of rain ... ... bucking the long, black sedan that was speeding toward Memphis. Arlen Rankin, Tennessee's senior Senator, sat in the rear seat hardly aware of any... ...Senator from New Mexico yield for a question?" The newly appointed Senator from Tennessee asked. "I'll yield for one minute," Quinoness said. "Than... ...gh levels of radioactive waste leaking into the environment. In my own state of Tennessee, not a week goes by without such ar­ ticles. I would like t... ...o be strong, they want us to disarm, become defenseless. When the Senator from Tennessee has been around long enough - if he's around long enough -... ...te any smoke it smells, and right now I've got a snout full," the Senator from Tennessee rebutted. "Are there any further questions, or political s... ... carried about ten men, all crack mercenaries personally trained by Ryan in the Tennessee hills. Ryan had put the call out a week ago, and within th...

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...Spink, Stanley, Sully, Todd, Tripp, Turner, Union, Walworth, Yankton, Ziebach Tennessee: Tax Lien Certificate State 95 Counties Anderson, Bedfor...

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...: 108,890 km 2 ; land area: 108,430 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Tennessee Land boundaries: 1,625 km total Coastline: 400 km Maritime clai... ...112,090 km 2 ; land area: 111,890km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Tennessee Land boundaries: 1,530 km total Coastline: 820 km Maritime clai...

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...pam By: Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Tennessee resident K. C. "Khan" Smith owes the internet service provider Ea... ...vada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The ...

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...ated to the sum of unitary divisors of an integer, Ph. D. Thesis, Univ. of Tennessee, 1970. 24. C.R. Wall, Density bounds for Euler’s function, Math. ...

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...stainable indefinitely." In another paper, with Paul Davidson of the University of Tennessee, the authors went as far as suggesting that America's ...

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...an Capote, Franz Kafka, Eugene O'Neill, Dorothy Parker, Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams; artists like Claude Monet; musicians like John Lennon,...

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...briele did not feel much misanthropy. Her ideas, she knew, were as rare as a Tennessee Coneflower or a Black Outhouse Hollyhock-both of which bordered...

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...tings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION SUCCESS IN EAST TENNESSEE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., De- cember 7, 1863. Relia... ...nformation being received that the insurgent force is retreating from East Tennessee, under circumstances render- ing it probable that the Union force... ...whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a... ...ivided into distinct parts, with no practical communication between them. Tennessee and Arkansas have been substantially cleared of insurgent con- tr... ...Representatives, and especially on re- cent military events in Georgia and Tennessee. Y ours very truly, A. LINCOLN. 46 The Writings of Abraham Linco... ... DE- PARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, December 19, 1863. GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a large part of ... ...f State, Washington, D.C.: In county and State elections, must citizens of Tennessee take the oath prescribed by Governor Johnson, or will the Preside... ...or Johnson on the twenty-sixth of January, 1864, ordering an elec- tion in Tennessee on the first Saturday in March next, is en- tirely satisfactory t... ...s, of the massacre, by the rebel forces at Fort Pillow, in the west end of Tennessee, on the Mississippi River, of some three hundred colored soldiers...

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...NSON. [cipher.] W ASHINGTON, June 4, 1862. HON. ANDREW JOHNSON, Nashville, Tennessee: Do you really wish to have control of the question of releasing ... ...control of the question of releasing rebel prisoners so far as they may be Tennesseeans? If you do, please tell us so. Y our answer not to be made pub... ...nging one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it probable that you... ...SON. [Cipher.] W ASHINGTON, June 9, 1862. HON. ANDREW JOHNSON, Nashville, ‘Tennessee: Y our despatch about seizing seventy rebels to exchange for a li... ... both interest and value to us here to know how the expedition toward East Tennessee is progressing, if in your judgment you can give us the informati... ...ur ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. This condition being observed, the forces to be detached and the... ...be brought here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we ... ...t we have in the West, open the Mississippi, and take Chattanooga and East Tennessee with- out more. A reasonable force should in every event be kept ... ...nt be given up. The Presi- dent regards that and the movement against East Tennessee as one of the most important movements of the war, and its oc- cu...

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...ore. But Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a com mon tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse doctor named Sakka... ... on earth, but here they get their rightful rank. That tailor Billings, from Tennessee, wrote poetry that Homer and Shakespeare couldn’t begin to come... ...s something in that miserable spiritualism, so we could send them word. That Tennessee village would set up a monu “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s...

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...Penn- sylvania, 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Ka... ...es of Beauregard, in Virginia; of Johnston, on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee; and of Price, in Missouri. There was also a fourth army in Kansa... ...nk that man’s act can upset these ties of nature. But between Kentucky and Tennessee there is no such bond of union. There a mathematical line has bee... ...ides Virginia from North Carolina, to which two latter States Kentucky and Tennessee belonged when the thir- teen original States first formed themsel... ...would be dissevered should Ken- tucky throw in her lot with the North, and Tennessee with the South; but Kentucky owns a quarter of a million of slave... ...ssible. The generals and commodores were gone up the Ohio River and up the Tennessee in an expedition with gun- boats, which turned out to be successf... ...vice, for which they have been built. Six or seven of them had gone up the Tennessee River the day before we reached Cairo; and while we were there th... ...rity. I ascertained that this might easily have been done from Kentucky to Tennessee, but that it could only be done on foot. There are very few avail... ...my was commencing that series of active movements in Kentucky, and through Tennessee, which led to such important results, and gave to the North the f...

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...know some people that think of bringing a suit against one of your railways, and they asked me to come over and take measures accordingly.” “What’s yo... ...- ter enjoy yourself first!” “I’m certainly rather afraid I can’t work in this weather,” the young barrister confessed. “Leave that to the natives,” s... ...d its attractions, for Beaumont was constantly at his 38 An International Episode hostess’s side. He detached himself one day to the extent of going ...

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...l, is no wrong. Another thing he tells you, in a speech made at Memphis in Tennessee, shortly after the canvass in Illinois, last year. He there disti... ... ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee; and, a few years later, Georgia ceded that which now constitutes... ...being almost for the Union, while in oth- ers—as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas— the Union sentiment was nearly repressed and silen... ...ted in any one of them. It is ventured to affirm this even of Virginia and Tennessee; for the result of an election held in military camps, where the ... ... done, a joint movement from Cairo on Memphis; and from Cincinnati on East Tennessee. TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY . W ASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 1861... ...o- ken out and yet exists within the States of Virginia, North Caro- lina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; and whereas the insurgents in all the said States ... ...s of the said States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida (e... ...ent made to seize and hold a point on the railroad connecting Virginia and Tennessee near the mountain-pass called Cumberland Gap. That point is now g... ...m Lexington or Nicholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Lebanon to the Tennessee line, in the direction of Knoxville, or on some still different l...

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......................................................................... 110 Tennessee Claflin Shope ...................................................... ...rents, tumbling into air pockets, Y ou Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits, And Tennessee Claflin Shopes— Y ou found with all your boasted wisdom How hard ... ...t last in Virginia, Two children dead in the meanwhile. We went by oxen to Tennessee, Thence after years to Illinois, At last to Spoon River. We cut t... ...purity— I can no more, Find the goal or lose it, according to your vision. Tennessee Claflin Shope I WA S the laughing-stock of the village, Chiefly o...

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...estriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, —or the Lord knows The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Ir...

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...ry were numbered. First, the new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the... ...omise. Half the church and half the aisle was in Kentucky, the other half in Tennessee. Sundays you’d see the families drive up, all in their Sunday c... ...o T ennes see, back into Missouri, then back into Kentucky, and thence into Tennessee again. So a mile or two of Missouri sticks over into Tennessee.... ...land Mountain, and Crenshaw soon knew all about his business. He had been to Tennessee to buy a drove of hogs, but when he got there pork was dearer t... ...is a picture from the adver tisement of the “Female Institute” of Columbia; Tennessee. The following remark is from the same advertisement— “The Inst...

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...Twain 140 midnight tempest: “I will tell you about that man. It was in Jackson’s time. Gadsby’s was the principal hotel, then. Well, this man ar- rive... ... only had a little claim against the government to collect, would run across the way, to the Treasury, and fetch the money, and then get right along b... ...dog carry my claim in a little bundle, anyway, when it’s collected. So tomorrow I’ll be up bright and early, make my little old collection, and mosey ... ...“Very well, very well—what of it?” “I’m great friends with that old patriarch. He comes every evening to tell me good-by. I saw him an hour ago—he’s o... ...through and be off before night- Mark Twain 142 owls like me have turned out of bed. The tears were in his eyes, he was so glad he was going to see h...

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...o be recorded with that of Eustache de St. Pierre. The City of Palmyra, in Tennessee, one of the Southern States of America, had been occupied by a Fe...

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...irginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art. 2, Section 22. 341 Tocquevil... ...er’s side, *These nations are now swallowed up in the States of Geor- gia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. There were for- merly in the South fou... ...w York in 1786, and have since been abolished in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Missouri. In V ermont, Indiana, Illinois, South *Th... ...w York,” vol. ii. pp. 411, 643, 717, 720; “The Statute Law of the State of Tennessee,” vol. i. p. 209; “Acts of the State of Ohio,” pp. 95 and 210; an...

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...it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Geor gia, and Florida. Its power ...

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...ome cattle. Ursula began to sing, in a false quavering voice: ‘Way down in Tennessee—’ She sounded purely anxious. Nevertheless, Gudrun, with 163 her...

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..., would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate wheth...

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..., would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate wheth...

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...told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tennessee moun- taineer stories, most of which Carol had heard. A “lady elo...

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...fied, as were also points on the T ennessee and Cumberland rivers near the Tennessee state line. The works on the Ten- nessee were called Fort Heiman ... ...Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the r... ... sent out into west Kentucky, threatening Columbus with one column and the Tennessee River with another. I went with McClernand’s command. The weather... ... I had previously held, that the true line of operations for us was up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. With us there, the enemy would be compelle... ...r men to move at one time the 17,000 men I proposed to take with me up the Tennessee. I loaded the boats with more than half the force, however, and s... ...tance below the fort. On account of the narrow water-shed sepa- rating the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers at that point, the stream must be insignifi... ... Phelps, commanding the iron-clad Carondelet, at my request as- cended the Tennessee River and thoroughly destroyed the bridge of the Memphis and Ohio... ...possession of most of the territory embraced in the States of Kentucky and Tennessee. It is true, the two generals senior in rank at Fort Donelson wer... ...enry expeditions were to be sent against Eastport, Mississippi, and Paris, Tennessee. We started from Donelson on the 4th, and the same day I was back...

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...cted in 1844, but it will not now, because he must now, at the least, lose Tennessee, which he had then, and in addition the fifteen new votes of Flor... ...ies. They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Loui- siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,... .... This one principle is his position on the veto power. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Stanton] who has just taken his seat, indeed, has said there... ...issippi. What has since been formed into the States of Maine, Kentucky and Tennessee, was, I believe, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, ... ... the State of Kentucky. North Carolina thus owned what is now the State of Tennessee; and South Carolina and Georgia owned, in separate parts, what ar... ...800. Had this report been adopted, not only the North- west, but Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi also would have been free; but it requi... ... to the latitude and longitude of those States. In 1828 Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, were elected President a...

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...rtant than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or ... ...kers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain’d by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas, Torches shine in the dark th... ... in good health, the ground in all directions is cover’d with pine straw; In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the ... ... or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river, Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Sa... ...diana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs, To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs, To T... ...sin, every barbed spear under thee, Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light green sheath, Gather the hay to its myri... ..., or breath of an Illinois prairie, With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida’s glades, Or the Saguenay’s ... ... up! O to be a Carolinian! O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 485 MANNAHATT... ...r graves in the trenches ascending, From cemeteries all through Virginia and Tennessee, From every point of the compass out of the countless graves, I...

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...racter and destiny. The out- let of this system lies between the States of Tennessee and Missouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State ... ...da, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky, 118 North America V ol. 1 Missouri, Virginia, Delawar... ..., at any rate, will never throw in its lot with the Southern States. As to Tennessee, it seceded heart and soul, and I fear that it must be accounted ... ... Carolina 308,186 407,185 715,371 North Carolina 679,965 328,377 1,008,342 Tennessee 859,578 287,112 1,146,690 Total 4,574,429 3,075,231 7,649,660 12... ...roduce of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. This cou...

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...is cup. “Thank God, we ’ve got slathers of tea! I ’ve seen it growing, down in Tennessee. What would n’t I give for a hot corn pone just now! Never mi... ...bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes of his ... ...rything. Malemute Kid went about his work, listening to Mason, who was back in Tennessee, delivering tangled discourses and wild exhorta tions to his...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1845 The inaugural ceremonies of former Tennessee Governor and Speaker of the House James Knox Polk were con duc...