Tippecanoe, Being a True Chronicle of Certain Passages Between David Larrance Antoinette O'bannon of the Battle of Tippecanoe in the Indiana ... and Now First Setforth
Excerpt from Tippecanoe, Being a True Chronicle of Certain Passages Between David Larrance Antoinette O'bannon of the Battle of Tippecanoe in the Indiana Wilderness, and of What Befell Thereafter in Old Corydon and Now First Setforth
Then, in the open spaces and around the gray log cabins on the heights, the peach trees flushed pink in the warm kisses of the sun - great masses of pink, trailing from field to field. The new grass, first visible on the moister earth of the lowest land, was starred in patches by multitudes of bluets, the blue-eyed grass, each tiny flower as simple and as wonderful as a little child.
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The Princeton University Library still has correspondence, notes, and selected manuscripts of McCoy (Class of 1905), ranging from his writings as an investigative reporter in the early 1900s to his later works as novelist, biographer, and children's author under the name of Ellery Queen, Jr. As investigative journalist McCoy won the Pulitzer Prize for the New York World in 1922 with his investigation of the Florida penal system.