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Exploring Lake Superior in 1840, one Charles W Penny wrote, \u201cWe read the Bible I dare say much more than we would have done had we been in Detroit. Shakespeare was duly honoured, as he is every day when we travel. When on the water, some one of the party usually reads his plays to the others.\u201d <\/p>\n
Jim Bridger, an illiterate Rocky Mountain scout, learned passages of Shakespeare by heart by having the plays read to him, and Tocqueville wrote in the early 1830s that \u201cthere is hardly a pioneer\u2019s hut that does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare.\u201d <\/p>\n
Karl Marx\u2019s daughter called Shakespeare \u201cthe Bible of our house . . . by the time I was six I knew scene upon scene . . . by heart.\u201d <\/p>\n
Daniel Boone, though, preferred Swift during the quiet nights by his Kentucky campfire. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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