Word: shiloh
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...Shiloh...
...soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed to have been drowned, recovered and cremated on the Leghorn beach. This identity is masked, however, for the fiction's sake, under a name Lord Byron used to call his lonely-hearted friend, Shiloh...
...many days are required to restore Shiloh to his best blithe spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress in wilderness America. David's locket shows Silver Cross, twin sister of the man slain by David, to be of utmost virginal beauty. Ever the champion of such females, Shiloh sets off across the Appalachians afoot with good-hearted David, improvising odes to Nature, caroling Greek choruses, skimming the rugged...
They float down the Ohio on a raft with a Captain and a Professor. They penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
Born at Ottumwa, Iowa, of a father who ran away from home to participate as a drummer-boy at twelve on the battlefield of Shiloh, Honore Willsie Morrow has led a life that has been a consistent development toward the goal which she has sought. Her childhood was spent in the West and it is of the West that she has written. Her stories are vivid, decisive tales of plain and hill. They are filled with excellent background and quick characterization. They move rapidly. They are good stories, probably the best of all the western stories. Mrs. Morrow herself...