item: #1 of 25 id: 10621 author: Stribling, T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) title: Birthright: A Novel date: None words: 72821 flesch: 83 summary: Peter turned, and caught an alcoholic breath over his shoulder, and the blurred voice of a Southern negro called out above the rumble of the car and the roar of the engine: 'Fo' Gawd, ef dis ain't Peter Siner I's been lookin' at de las' twenty miles, an' not knowin' him wid sich skeniptious clo'es on! Peter stood in the brilliant light, astonished, not at Captain Renfrew's being a Harvard man,--he had known that,--but that this old gentleman was telling the fact to him, Peter Siner, a negro graduate of Harvard. keywords: bend; big; black; cabin; captain; caroline; chair; cissie; dat; day; dildine; door; dust; eyes; face; fuh; gentleman; girl; good; half; hand; head; hill; home; hooker; house; jim; life; man; matter; men; mind; moment; mother; mulatto; negress; negro; negroes; niggertown; night; pack; peter; peter siner; pink; place; queer; race; renfrew; river; room; rose; set; south; street; thought; time; tump; village; voice; want; way; white; whut; window; woman; work cache: 10621.txt plain text: 10621.txt item: #2 of 25 id: 13202 author: Watkins, Samuel R. (Samuel Rush) title: "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment Or, A Side Show of the Big Show date: None words: 85617 flesch: 84 summary: Both were old men, and very poor, with large families at home; and they were forced to go to war against their wishes, while their wives and little children were at home without the necessaries of life. Every day I would look on at the suffering of delicate ladies, old men, and mothers with little children clinging to them, crying, O, mamma, mamma, and old women, and tottering old men, whose gray hairs should have protected them from the savage acts of Yankee hate and Puritan barbarity; and I wondered how on earth our generals, including those who had resigned--that is where the shoe pinches--could quietly look on at this dark, black, and damning insult to our people, and not use at least one effort to rescue them from such terrible and unmitigated cruelty, barbarity, and outrage. keywords: army; atlanta; battle; boys; bragg; camp; cannon; captain; cavalry; charge; colonel; come; command; company; country; day; days; dead; death; face; fellow; field; fire; firing; general; god; good; guard; gun; guns; hands; head; home; hood; house; joe; john; left; life; line; look; looking; man; march; men; morning; place; poor; private; rations; reader; rear; regiment; right; river; run; shot; soldier; tell; tennessee; thought; time; war; way; yankee; years cache: 13202.txt plain text: 13202.txt item: #3 of 25 id: 13724 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Frontiersmen date: None words: 66970 flesch: 65 summary: A few old women, their minds intent upon the preparation of dinner, a few of the very young children, relishing their own pottering devices as of a finer flavor of sport, a few old men, like other old men elsewhere, with thoughts of the past so vivid that the present could show but a pallid aspect--these were absent, and were not missed. He was fast aging now; the difficulties of diplomacy constantly increasing in view of individual aggressions and encroachments of the Carolina colonists on the east, and the ever specious wiles and suave allurements of the French on the west, to win the Cherokees from their British alliance; the impossibility, in the gentle patriarchal methods of the Cherokee government, to control the wild young men of the tribe, who, as the half-king, Atta-Kulla-Kulla said, often acted like madmen rather than people of sense (and it is respectfully submitted that this peculiarity has been observed in other young men elsewhere); the prophetic vision, doubtless, of the eventual crushing of his people in the collisions of the great international struggle of the Europeans for the possession of this country,--all fostered tokens of time in the face of Colannah, and bowed his straight back, and set an unwonted quiver in the nerves of his old hand that had been firm in his heyday, and strong and crafty and cruelly bloody. keywords: air; amoyah; attusah; away; ball; blue; british; charlestown; cheera; cherokee; chungke; colannah; country; cow; dark; day; emsden; english; eyes; face; fact; fire; fort; french; good; government; grandfather; great; ground; half; hand; head; heart; house; indian; kulla; lick; life; man; men; mivane; moment; mountains; nation; new; night; otasite; pack; penelope; peninnah; place; red; richard; river; station; taghe; tennessee; thought; time; town; trader; tribe; varney; voice; war; white; wild; world; years; young cache: 13724.txt plain text: 13724.txt item: #4 of 25 id: 14863 author: Daviess, Maria Thompson title: The Tinder-Box date: None words: 52604 flesch: 76 summary: And the sight of dear old Jane mixing with those Harpeth Valley farmer folk was one of the things I have put aside to remember for always. Sometimes it startles me to find that with all my emancipation I am very like other women. keywords: augusta; aunt; cousin; crag; day; dear; evelina; eyes; face; glendale; good; harpeth; head; heart; help; henrietta; home; james; jane; jasper; left; life; love; martha; men; nell; night; peter; polk; sallie; things; thought; time; town; uncle; voice; want; way; woman; world cache: 14863.txt plain text: 14863.txt item: #5 of 25 id: 19416 author: Holmes, William Henry title: Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 date: None words: 19339 flesch: 80 summary: Height, 4½ inches; width, of base, 3½ inches. 62766. It is 2½ inches in length, 1½ in width, and three-fourths of an inch in thickness. keywords: articles; body; clay; diameter; feet; fig; gray; height; illustration; inches; length; mound; stone; surface; vase; vessel; width cache: 19416.txt plain text: 19416.txt item: #6 of 25 id: 19776 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee date: None words: 41354 flesch: 74 summary: Although failing in no observance of courtesy, Mrs. Briscoe had been a little less than complaisant toward the departed guest. Mrs. Briscoe, considerably in advance of her guest, paled at the sight of him, and, silent and visibly shocked, paused as abruptly as if she beheld a ghost. keywords: air; archie; bayne; boy; briscoe; child; clenk; coat; copenny; day; door; eyes; face; fire; fur; half; hand; head; heart; hope; hotel; house; julian; life; light; like; lillian; look; man; mind; moment; mother; mountains; mrs; red; room; royston; sense; sound; sure; ter; thought; time; veranda; voice; white; woman cache: 19776.txt plain text: 19776.txt item: #7 of 25 id: 19932 author: United States. Work Projects Administration title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives date: None words: 23380 flesch: 97 summary: We had good clothes ter w'ar en w'en we went ter de table hit wuz loaded wid good food en we could set down en eat our stomachs full. I wuz bawn in slavery en b'longs ter de Brown family. keywords: 'bout; atter; big; come; daddy; dat; day; dem; den; dere; dey; dey wuz; dunno; en dey; fer; folks; fum; gib; git; good; hab; hit; house; i'se; kum; long; mah; mammy; man; marster; member; missis; nashville; ob de; old; ole; slaves; sum; tennessee; ter; ter de; things; time; w'en; way; white; wid; wuk; wuz; y'ars; yer; young cache: 19932.txt plain text: 19932.txt item: #8 of 25 id: 20365 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories date: None words: 45090 flesch: 86 summary: I'd ruther squeeze myself small enough ter git inter his'n, than ter hev ter yell like a catamount fur an hour I seen yer brother Alf awhile back, an' he axed me ter git ye ter go by Tom Brent's house, an' tell Tom ter meet him up the road a piece by that thar big sulphur spring. keywords: air; barney; boy; boys; cliff; day; door; eyes; face; fur; good; hand; head; hev; hev ter; home; house; hyar; ike; jim; kem; ledge; little; man; men; moment; mother; mountain; nick; night; poor; red; stood; ter; thar; thought; time; valley; waal; war; way; window; ye ter cache: 20365.txt plain text: 20365.txt item: #9 of 25 id: 20941 author: Bente, F. (Friedrich) title: American Lutheranism, Volume 1 Early History of American Lutheranism and the Tennessee Synod date: None words: 92546 flesch: 60 summary: Helffenstein be the committee to the New York Synod, and the Rev. Messrs. Hendel, Hoffmeier, and Wack, Sr., the committee to the Lutheran Synod. Minutes of German Reformed Synod, 1818: The committee which was appointed to confer with a committee of the Lutheran Synod in reference to the founding of a theological school reported that they attended the Lutheran Synod of last year, and were received in a very fraternal manner; and that that Synod has appointed a committee to confer after the present meeting with a committee of the Reformed Synod on any subjects relating to the school, and to submit something definite; and they proposed that a similar committee be appointed. keywords: america; augsburg; believe; bible; body; carolina synod; children; christ; christian; church; churches; committee; confession; congregations; constitution; david; doctrinal; doctrine; english; evangelical; faith; following; general; general synod; german; god; good; halle; henkel; holy; language; letter; lord; lutheran; lutheran church; lutheran synod; lutheranism; majority; manner; meeting; members; men; ministerium; ministers; minutes; muhlenberg; new; north; order; pastors; pennsylvania synod; people; philadelphia; present; reformed; report; seminary; spirit; synod; tennessee synod; time; truth; union; united; word; years; york cache: 20941.txt plain text: 20941.txt item: #10 of 25 id: 2390 author: Henderson, Archibald title: The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 date: None words: 73892 flesch: 56 summary: For many months each year he threaded his way through that marvelously beautiful country of western North Carolina felicitously described as the Switzerland of America. Terrible indeed was the havoc wrought among the elk; and it was reported that the last elk was killed in western North Carolina as early as 1781. keywords: american; boone; captain; chapter; cherokees; colonel; colonial; colony; company; congress; country; creek; cumberland; daniel; day; dunmore; force; fort; franklin; french; frontier; george; government; governor; great; henderson; historical; history; hunters; hunting; indians; james; john; judge; kentucky; king; land; letter; lick; life; line; long; march; martin; men; mountain; new; north carolina; ohio; party; pennsylvania; people; pioneers; records; region; richard; river; robertson; settlements; settlers; sevier; south; southwest; state; tennessee; time; transylvania; treaty; valley; virginia; watauga; west; western; westward; white; wilderness; william; yadkin; year cache: 2390.txt plain text: 2390.txt item: #11 of 25 id: 28328 author: Brownlow, William Gannaway title: Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors date: None words: 96077 flesch: 60 summary: Would either have entered into any political league, when _secrecy_ was enjoined, if he had not approved of the principle of secrecy in political associations? But these Bishops, Elders, and other Ministers, would receive all this with a greater degree of allowance, if they did not believe that your generous patronage, so lavishly bestowed upon them and their creed, was prompted by a principle of which _selfishness_ is the soul! keywords: american; american party; authority; buchanan; catholic; church; citizens; clay; congress; constitution; convention; country; day; democracy; democratic; donelson; england; europe; fillmore; following; foreign; foreigners; free; general; god; good; government; governor; holy; johnson; know; law; laws; letter; lord; man; member; men; methodist; ministers; native; new; north; oath; office; old; order; party; people; pierce; platform; pope; power; present; protestant; public; question; religion; right; roman; rome; senate; slavery; slaves; south; speech; states; subject; tennessee; time; union; united; vote; war; washington; whig; world; years cache: 28328.txt plain text: 28328.txt item: #12 of 25 id: 3073 author: Skinner, Constance Lindsay title: Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground date: None words: 63445 flesch: 69 summary: To head an enterprise of such danger and hardship Henderson required a man of more than mere courage; a man of resource, of stability, of proven powers, one whom other men would follow and obey with confidence. But when the man whom he hated--apparently for no reason except that other men loved him--assented to the people's will and was appointed to the highest post within their gift, Tipton withdrew, disavowing all connection with Frankland and affirming his loyalty to North Carolina. keywords: adair; american; boone; british; brother; cabin; carolina; cherokees; clark; company; country; creek; daniel; daniel boone; day; days; early; england; english; ferguson; fort; french; frontier; general; george; good; governor; henderson; history; home; indians; james; john; kentucky; king; land; life; little; man; men; miles; mountains; new; north; north carolina; ohio; peace; red; river; robertson; set; settlements; settlers; sevier; spanish; state; tennessee; territory; time; towns; trader; troops; virginia; war; warriors; watauga; way; white; william; women; years cache: 3073.txt plain text: 3073.txt item: #13 of 25 id: 31122 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories date: None words: 63466 flesch: 75 summary: An' then, kase a mean-spirited half-liver flings dirt on ye an' yer fambly, fur ye ter sit down on a low stool, an' fill yer mouth with mud, an' 'low this air plenty good enough fur we-uns! Waal, he resumed, I b'lieve ef that thar traveler had been able ter speak ter ye when ye fund him, like ye said he tried ter do, I b'lieve he would hev tole ye suthin' 'bout that thar valley man. keywords: 'bout; air; ben; blue; brown; con; coroner; county; dark; day; eyes; ez ye; face; fambly; fire; folks; fur; git; goin'; good; great; half; hand; hanway; head; heart; hev; hite; horse; hyar; interest; jes; jury; justus; kem; know; life; light; like; look; man; moment; mountain; persimmon; red; road; sech; selwyn; set; sneed; stranger; ter; ter git; thar; thought; time; town; valley; view; voice; war; wat; way; witch; woods; ye hev; ye ter; yer cache: 31122.txt plain text: 31122.txt item: #14 of 25 id: 31406 author: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend) title: Cudjo's Cave date: None words: 116135 flesch: 87 summary: Mr. Villars, however, blind and venerated old man, had sufficient influence over the people, Penn believed, to serve as a protection to his household even with him in it. Toby says that poor old man, Mr. Ellerton, who assisted you to escape, was caught and hung by some of the soldiers yesterday. keywords: arms; bed; black; boy; bythewood; captain; carl; cave; cudjo; dan; dark; dat; dear; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; friends; fur; god; good; hand; head; heart; house; left; life; little; look; lysander; man; master; men; mind; moment; mountain; mrs; negro; night; penn; pepperill; place; pomp; poor; rocks; ropes; salina; silas; soldiers; soul; sprowl; stackridge; thing; thought; time; toby; vas; villars; virginia; voice; way; white; woods; young cache: 31406.txt plain text: 31406.txt item: #15 of 25 id: 31801 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Story of Old Fort Loudon date: None words: 95497 flesch: 64 summary: The Cherokee kings had offered Captain Stuart life and practically liberty in exchange for this service. The corporal, a dark-haired, blue-eyed, florid young Irishman, looking very stanch and direct and steady, but not without a twinkle of humor which betokened some histrionic capacity to support the situation, speaking partly in English and partly, glibly enough, in very tolerable Cherokee, although incongruously embellished with an Irish brogue, detailed that Captain Stuart had been apprised that there was a band of Indians on the river who had some white people with them, and he wished to know if these white people were French, in which case, according to the treaty made with the Cherokees, they must be arrested and delivered up to the commandant of the fort, or if English, he wished to be assured that they were at liberty to go where they pleased, and were under no restraint. keywords: arms; atta; away; blood; captain demeré; captain stuart; cherokee; chief; children; commandant; corporal; country; dark; day; demeré; door; english; eyes; face; fact; fifine; fire; force; fort; fort loudon; french; garrison; george; good; ground; guns; hair; half; hamish; hand; head; heart; home; house; indians; kulla; lay; left; life; look; loudon; macleod; man; men; military; mind; moment; montgomery; mrs; new; night; o'flynn; oconostota; odalie; officers; parade; people; place; poor; prince; red; river; sandy; settlers; soldiers; sort; stuart; thought; time; way; white; willinawaugh; women; woods cache: 31801.txt plain text: 31801.txt item: #16 of 25 id: 33970 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories date: None words: 63597 flesch: 75 summary: Then why n't ye leave it ter men? I can't _prove_ An' he got old man Byars ter wagin him down ter Colb'ry, a-layin' on two feather beds 'count o' the rocky roads, an' thar he got on the steam kyars an' he rid on them back ter keywords: air; blue; close; company; cove; dark; day; door; eyes; face; fire; fur; geraldine; git; good; gordon; guide; guidon; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hev; home; house; hoxer; hyar; jes; kennedy; know; law; life; line; low; man; mind; moment; moon; mountain; night; open; place; red; river; road; room; sech; set; sky; sound; sure; tanglefoot; tell; ter; thar; thought; time; uns; voice; wagon; war; water; way; whenst; white; wild; wind; world; wyatt; ye ter; yer cache: 33970.txt plain text: 33970.txt item: #17 of 25 id: 35619 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains date: None words: 68304 flesch: 82 summary: I oughter do ter g'long with the sher'ff an' leave it ter men. Ye air ter be cast down--ye who hev stood high. keywords: 'em; agin; air; amos; big; blacksmith; blue; brother; cayce; d ter; d'rindy; dark; day; door; dorinda; eyes; ez ef; ez ter; ez ye; face; fire; fur; goin' ter; great; green; hand; head; heart; hev; hev ter; horse; hyar; james; jes; kelsey; kem; know; law; light; long; look; man; men; mind; mountain; nuthin'; pa'son; pete; red; rick; rose; sech; sheriff; smoky; ter; ter git; thar; time; tyler; uns; voice; waal; war; war ter; white; wild; word; ye hev; ye ter; ye war; yer cache: 35619.txt plain text: 35619.txt item: #18 of 25 id: 36771 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories date: None words: 95836 flesch: 78 summary: It's ye that oughter be 'shamed, an' ef ye ain't, it's more shame ter ye. She axed me ter put it on, so ez ter see which one I looked most like. keywords: agin; air; away; baby; boy; brown; child; close; court; cove; d ter; dark; day; door; eyes; ez ter; ez ye; face; fire; folks; foot; fur; git; goin' ter; good; got; grinnell; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hev; home; house; hyar; jes; kem; kem ter; kittredge; know; law; leander; life; light; like; look; low; man; mighty; mind; moment; mother; mountain; nehemiah; place; purdee; ranger; red; rocks; saw; sech; sense; set; sound; sudley; tell; ter; ter git; ter hev; thar; thought; time; tobe; uns; voice; war; war ter; white; wife; wind; woman; word; yander; ye air; ye hev; ye ter; yer; yerby; young cache: 36771.txt plain text: 36771.txt item: #19 of 25 id: 3745 author: Daviess, Maria Thompson title: The Road to Providence date: None words: 55704 flesch: 81 summary: Yes, I heard Tom Mayberry disgraced himself over your maple syrup jug, Bettie Pratt, called Mother Mayberry after her. As she spoke, Mother Mayberry had been rearranging the deserted nest with practised hand and had tenderly lifted two feeble, moist little new-borns on her broad palm to show to the Doctor. keywords: 'em; bettie; bostick; child; children; come; day; deacon; doctor; doctor mayberry; eliza; eyes; face; good; hand; head; heart; hoover; house; lady; life; luther; martin; miss; miss wingate; mother mayberry; mrs; peavey; pike; providence; right; road; singer; time; tom; tom mayberry; voice; way; wingate; world; young cache: 3745.txt plain text: 3745.txt item: #20 of 25 id: 37925 author: Crockett, Davy title: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. date: None words: 54734 flesch: 80 summary: few greater men in the world than myself. For then I might have been, by _common consent_, called _doctor_, as a heap of people get to be great men. keywords: author; bear; camp; company; country; cut; day; days; dogs; father; fort; general; going; home; horses; house; hunt; indians; jackson; left; life; major; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; people; place; river; set; thing; thought; time; volumes; water; way; work cache: 37925.txt plain text: 37925.txt item: #21 of 25 id: 45708 author: Torrey, Bradford title: Spring notes from Tennessee date: None words: 44469 flesch: 78 summary: The roads gave the visitor convenience of access,--a ready means of moving about with his eyes in the air,--and at the same time, by making the place more open, they made it more birdy; for birds, even the greater part of wood birds, like the borders of a forest better than its darker recesses. Few birds are more freely and easily observed. keywords: bird; black; blue; chattanooga; city; common; country; course; day; field; general; good; half; hill; home; house; little; long; look; lookout; man; massachusetts; men; missionary; mountain; new; place; red; ridge; road; saw; sight; song; sparrow; tennessee; thought; time; trees; valley; walden; warbler; water; way; white; woods; yellow cache: 45708.txt plain text: 45708.txt item: #22 of 25 id: 48937 author: MacGowan, Alice title: The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage date: None words: 94977 flesch: 86 summary: But not any Callista Lance had ever known; not the scornful beauty who throned herself among her mates and accepted the homage of mankind as her due; not the flushed, tremulous Callista of that Thar comes Lance now! announced Fuson, and then winked at his companions. keywords: 'em; air; arm; baby; banjo; boy; brother; cabin; callista; child; come; day; derf; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; flenton; gentry; girl; git; goin'; good; griever; half; hands; head; hit; home; house; kimbro; lance; lance cleaverage; law; like; little; long; look; man; men; mind; moment; mother; octavia; ola; place; right; room; roxy; set; sylvane; thar; thing; time; voice; want; way; widow; wife; woman; word; work cache: 48937.txt plain text: 48937.txt item: #23 of 25 id: 5306 author: Murfree, Mary Noailles title: Down the Ravine date: None words: 33673 flesch: 85 summary: An' dad gin his cornsent ter Nate ter let me work a month an' better fur him, ter pay out'n debt fur the shoat. I kem home by the tanyard Jube Perkins hollered ter me ter tell Birt ter come thar right quick. keywords: air; andy; bark; birt; boy; byers; day; eyes; ez ye; face; fur; git; gold; grant; griggs; hand; head; hev; home; house; hyar; jes; know; mother; mule; nate; perkins; rufe; tanner; tanyard; tennessee; ter; thar; time; uns; war; woods; work cache: 5306.txt plain text: 5306.txt item: #24 of 25 id: 57212 author: Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd) title: Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War (1861-1865) date: None words: 48703 flesch: 68 summary: As a result of the controversy that ensued, General Jackson was required by the Secretary of War to direct General Loring to return with his command to Winchester. So I returned to the Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and was enthusiastically received by the officers and members of my regiment; and especially by General Polk and his staff, upon which I found my dear friends Colonel Harry Yeatman, Colonel William B. Richmond and Colonel William D. Gale. keywords: army; battle; bishop; captain; church; city; colonel; command; confederate; day; diocese; enemy; following; friend; general; georgia; good; house; john; left; lieutenant; major; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; nashville; night; officers; order; personal; place; polk; quintard; regiment; rev; service; sewanee; soldiers; south; southern; sunday; tennessee; time; university; virginia; war; way; work; wounded cache: 57212.txt plain text: 57212.txt item: #25 of 25 id: 58974 author: Bixby, Jerome title: Our Town date: None words: 8431 flesch: 97 summary: Sit down, Ben Bates, old Jim snarled. Tom Pace shook his head, and old Jim looked like he'd like to go, if he only could--and Ben said, Maybe I'll be down a little while later, Windy. keywords: ben; jim; man; plane; right; tom; town; war; way cache: 58974.txt plain text: 58974.txt