valry Creek, Bluff Creek, Peace Creek, Cedar
Bluff, Council Bluffs, Punished Woman's Lake, Highbank Creek, Big
Knife, Black River, Cypress Creek, Black Raven, Brier Creek, Big Lick,
Laurel, Hurricane Inlet, Dead Man's Bay, Pine Hill, Magnolia, Mountain
Meadow, Medicine Woods, Rush Creek, Salt Plain, Saline River, Lava Bed,
Wild Horse, Sinking Creek, Nameless, Grassy Trail (in the desert),
Azure Cliffs, Miry Bottom, Sand Dune Plateau, Grouse Creek,--these are
names as communicative of secrets as a child. Heath, Rock Lake, Wood
Lake, Grand Prairie, Lily Creek, Swift Falls, Calamus River, Evergreen
Lake, Lone Tree (a prairie locality), Spring Bank, Fort Defiance,
Pontiac, Smoky Hill River (these hills are always as if smoky),--what a
light these names shed on the region in which they occur!

And you can recapitulate American history in its most salient details
from a reading of our geography. Great names stay, and will not be
gone. As moss clings to the rock, so do great memories cling to
localities. Nature conspires to keep illustrious men from death.
Witness such names as follows: Lincoln (General Lincoln of
Revolutionary fame), Madison, Pulaski (the brave Pole who fought for
our freedom), Webster, Sumner, Henry (Patrick), Jackson (doughty
general and President), Breckinridge, Hancock (signer of the
Declaration of Independence), Lafayette, Clay, Pocahontas, Calhoun,
Randolph, Monroe, Franklin, Jefferson, Clark (the explorer), Douglas
(the "Little Giant"), Adams, Whitman (the Presbyterian missionary, who
saved to the United States Washington and Oregon, by a heroic episode
which deserves the perpetual gratitude of those States), Custer (the
general slain in Indian warfare), Union (to commemorate the
preservation of our Union), Benton (Thomas H., of Missouri, whose
daughter was wife of General John C. Fremont), Lewis and Clark
(discoverers), Garfield, Kane (Arctic explorer), Lincoln (the
emancipator), Polk, Houston, Lee (General Robert E.), Tyler, Van Buren,
Scott (General Winfield, of the Mexican War), Pike (the discoverer of
Pike's Peak), Marshall (Chief-Justice), Berkely, Hamilton (Alexander,
our first lord of the Treasury), Gadsden (he of "the Gadsden
Purchase"), Marion, Sumter (both of Revolutionary fame), Carteret,
Columbus, Stanton, Colfax, Greeley, Chase, Sherman, Seward, Fillmore,
Harlan (Senator), Butler (Ben), Johnson (obstreperous "Andy"), Grant
(our chiefest military hero), Polk (General), Brown (John Br