1855 UNPUBLISHED MSS. Root Hog or Die - The American Revolution and Westward Expansion. ZZFineMiscellanea Soldiers Tears by Mrs

Soldiers Tears by Mrs

against indulgence of a wanton mind

Hugh Bourne

which he seems always to have indicated when preaching at the Tabernacle

1855 UNPUBLISHED MSS. Root Hog or Die - The American Revolution and Westward Expansion. ZZFineMiscellanea Soldiers Tears by MrsA very fine piece of unpublished mid 19th century political song. The lined, bifolium sheet dates to c. 1855, the earliest days of Kansas settlement, and contains two complete songs in separate hands. The second, The Indian Hunter, is substantially that of Eliza Cook, with a few minor variations. The first, however, appears to be completely unpublished. It rousingly narrates American self identity as hard fighting, can do folk under the colloquial