The Land We Dreamed: Poems

Contents

Contents Preface xi I. The First Hunters The First Hunters 3 The Turtle Clan 7 II. Coureurs des Bois Noel Chabanel 11 Father Jerome Clermont 15 Noel 17 Among the Illinois 18 Fr. Jerome 22 Noel, Cogito 23 Fr. Jerome Hears of the Shawnee 25 Winter among the Mystassins 26 Noel 28 Memento Mei 30 Noel, Seul 32 La Belle Riviere 35 What He Found 39 III. Ken-ta-tha On the Ohio 45 Fort Pitt 48 Nimwha 49 Kyashuta to George Washington upon Meeting Him along the Ohio, 1770 51 Beniwerica 52 Bonah 53 The Prophet 55 IV. Long Hunter Beyond the Mountains 61 turrabel cainbrakes 62 Bear 64 Ambush 66 Alone 68 Winter Dream 70 Fire 71 Wintering 73 Falling Asleep while Hunting 74 Boustrophedon 75 Absence 76 Owl 77 Footprints 78 The Chain 80 Bread 83 Weariness 84 Question 85 Big Bone Lick 86 V. Voices from the Great Migration Dr. Thomas Walker 91 Mary Ingles 92 The feeling infinite 95 Henry Lee 97 Down the Ohio: Indian Summer, 1778 98 Through the Gap 100 Ella Mulligan 103 Mary Hite 106 On Dick’s River 108 Uriah Boyd 110 Clinch River Ford 111 Defeated Camp 113 Ada Milbank 115 First Frost 116 Autumn Snakes 118 Gathering Browse in Winter 119 The hard winter 121 Mingo Bottom 122 VI. A Codicil Coal 125 Acknowledgments 129 Index of First Lines 131 ...