'Black Mammy', A Song of the Sunny South, in Three Cantos: And "My Village Home" (Classic Reprint)
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How blest the days, how sweet the ways, That Kate and I saw then My sister Kate. Whom God and fate, Have taken to His Aidenn. Now 'neath the orange trees, Kissed by each balmy breeze That thro' magnolias steal Under the bloom Lies Katie's tomb, And still's the spinning wheel.
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Buffalo Bill's own Story of his Life and Deeds; This Autobiography Tells in his own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of his Heroic Career
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William Lightfoot Visscher was an American journalist and actor.
Background
William Lightfoot Visscher was born on November 25, 1842, in Owingsville, Kentucky. He was the son of Frederick and Elizabeth Walker (Lightfoot) Visscher.
He was a descendant of Harmen Visscher, who emigrated from Hoorn in the Netherlands before 1644 and settled in Beverwyck (later Albany).
Education
Visscher was educated at Bath Seminary, Owingsville, and Stevenson's Academy, Danville, Kentucky, and left his studies to enlist in the Union forces as a member of the 24th Kentucky Volunteers. In 1868, received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Louisville.
Career
Visscher was mustered out at Covington, Kentucky, after serving about three years as hospital steward. In 1865, he became private secretary and amanuensis to George Dennison Prentice, editor of the Louisville Daily Journal. In the seventies, he went west and for most of the rest of his life was occupied in newspaper work, first in Saint Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri, later as editorial writer for some of the most important journals in the West, including the San Francisco Daily Mail in the late seventies, the Cheyenne Daily Sun (1883 - 85), the Denver Great West (1885 - 86), the Portland Morning Oregonian (1889), and the Tacoma Globe in the nineties.
After about 1895, he lived in Chicago, where he was a special contributor to the Herald and other papers. He wrote much journalistic verse and some plays, sketches, and indifferent novels, and had considerable success on the lecture platform and on the stage. Early in the century, he played leading parts in New York in Opie Read's The Jucklins and The Starbucks.
In Ten Wise Men and Some More (1909), he recorded reminiscences of his pioneer and journalistic friends, among whom were such well-known figures as Col. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), Eugene Field, Bill Nye, and Franklin K. Lane.
He died on February 10, 1924, in Chicago of a heart attack.