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This is a beautiful collection of American folksong and lore all in one. It follows chronologically through history.

America tells one story: the unbroken, ineluctable progress of freedom and equality. ~Allan Bloom

I feel like I’m never going to finish this story.

You see how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things. This consists in a full resignation to the will of providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns. - Daniel Boone