The Forest That Ate Washington Irving
Posted by Tasha on August 22nd, 2011 in Attractions, Culture, Date Night, Free Stuff to Do, Kids and Families
If you’d have talked to Washington Irving the night before he set out from Fort Gibson on his 1832 romp through Green Country, you would have thought he was a five-year-old with a one-way ticket to Disney World. Wide-eyed and giddy, he waxed poetic in letters to family about “pristine wilderness” and “herds of buffalo scouring their native prairies.”
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