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    The Flag and the Faithful
    The Flag and the Faithful
    The Flag and the Faithful
    Audiobook12 minutes

    The Flag and the Faithful

    Written by William J. Lampton

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2013.

    William J. Lampton was the second cousin of Jane Clemens (the youngest of the three daughters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.)
    He launched his jounalist carreer in 1877 by starting the Ashland (Kentucky) Weekly Review, with his father’s money. Lampton wrote several book, as well as humorous poems he called 'yawps'. These were printed in the New York Sun and published in Yawps and Other Things ca. 1900. (Summary taken from Wikipedia and the Mark Twain Project)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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