connemaugh

Updated: May 29, 2025

Therefore I cast many and divers flies upon the current of his thoughts before I feel a nibble. "I notice," said I, "that the Western farmers, in spite of their prosperity, are running after their old populistic idols again." "It's the running season," said Jeff, "for farmers, shad, maple trees and the Connemaugh river. I know something about farmers.

O. Henry - The Gentle Grafter

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army. And when early in the morning I went to the window the chain of steel was still unbroken. It was like the torrent that swept down the Connemaugh Valley and destroyed Johnstown.

Richard Harding Davis - With the Allies