| [Not
long after the Civil War the Arkansas River began to erode the site where
Napoleon, Arkansas once stood. By 1874 what was left of Napoleon was abandoned
to the river.] Yes, it was an astonishing thing to see the Mississippi rolling between
unpeopled shores and straight over the spot where I used to see a good
big self-complacent town twenty years ago. Town that was county-seat of
a great and important county; town with a big United States marine hospital;
town of innumerable fights--an inquest every day; town where I had used
to know the prettiest girl, and the most |
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