Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 260
fore he died, he hadmade a new fortune. What a man he was! Beginning as a barefootboy in a sleepy Mississippi river town, a journey-man printer with little education and no promiseof a future, a river pilot, an unlucky prospector,he became a man of world-wide fame and im-mense influence. His books… … 166 BOOKS AND READING [Dec, knew human nature, laughed at its queer contra-dictions, admired and respected its goodness andkindness. Always he is intensely American, with-out being provincial. Not only did he have agenius for writing. He had a genius for beinga man ! If, as a young man, he was…
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