Dragooned!  Ten Traces of
Herman Melville
in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853)

Philip St. George Cooke

Radical Freelance, Esq.

William Gibson, USN

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Philip St George Cooke
Harper's Weekly (12 June 1858)

"Meantime he is his own Captain
& goes on his own adventure
& what he discovers
will be told in his own words."

―Sophia Hawthorne on Herman Melville, 24 October 1851 [1852?]
(as quoted in Hershel Parker, Herman Melville:  A Biography, V2: 141).

Adapted from a conference paper originally presented at the “Why Melville Matters Now” symposium in Albany, New York, November 17-19, 2006.