Alfred Billings Street

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Alfred Billings Street (1811-1881) was an American author, born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For many years he was New York State librarian. His poems deal with the sights and sounds of the woodland and the life of the more primitive days of the settlement of America. Among his books of verse are:

  • The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems (1842)
  • Drawings and Tintings (1844)
  • Fugitive Poems (1846)

His chief prose works are:

  • Woods and Waters (1860)
  • The Indian Pass (1869)
  • Lake and Mountain; or, Autumn in the Adirondacks (1870)
  • Eagle Pine; or, Sketches of a New York Frontier Village (1871)

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