“May: Back from the Argentine”, p. 35.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "May: Back from the Argentine," "June: The Alder Fork," "July: Great Possessions," and "July: Prairie Birthday"
“We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.”
Dispatch to General William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie, (10 September 1813)
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