When authors give shout outs to other great works, people, and events, it's usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Paul Goodman (1.1.15)
- Margaret Mead (1.1.15)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1.1.22, referenced throughout)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1.1.22, referenced throughout)
- Mark Twain (1.1.22, referenced throughout)
- Rudyard Kipling (1.1.22, referenced throughout)
- William Dean Howells (1.1.22, referenced throughout)
- Henry James (1.1.40, referenced throughout)
- Henry Adams (1.1.41)
- Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay (1.2.8)
- W.J. Linton (1.2.14)
- Edward Eggleston (1.2.14)
- Frank R. Stockton (1.2.14)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1.2.14)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1.2.18)
- Emma Lazarus (1.2.18, referenced throughout)
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1.4.4)
- George MacDonald (1.4.4)
- George Washington Cable (1.4.4)
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-Bound (1.4.4, referenced throughout)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Hanging of the Crane (1.4.5, referenced throughout)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Skeleton in Armor (1.4.6, referenced throughout)
- Bret Harte (1.4.6, referenced throughout)
- Edith Wharton (1.4.14)
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1.4.15)
- William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1.4.15)
- Henry James, The Bostonians (1.4.15)
- Cicero (1.4.17)
- John Muir (1.5.4)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1.6.20, referenced throughout)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2.3.59)
- Theodor Storm (2.3.59)
- Ivan Turgenev (2.3.59, referenced throughout)
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (2.3.13)
- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (2.4.6)
- Hjalmar Boyesen (2.5.48)
- Dante, The Divine Comedy (2.6.30)
- George William Curtis (3.3.49)
- Margaret Fuller (3.3.49, referenced throughout)
- Louisa May Alcott (4.3.28, referenced throughout)
- Walter Scott, Quentin Durward (4.3.62)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ode (4.4.54)
- Helen Hunt Jackson (4.4.62, referenced throughout)
- Joaquin Miller (4.7.1)
- Frithiof's Saga (5.1.27)
- Artemus Ward (5.6.16)
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (7.5.5)
- Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (7.7.86)
- Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol (8.4.2)
- Plato (8.6.38)
- Sir Thomas More (8.6.38)
- Herman Melville (8.6.38)
- Samuel Butler (8.6.38)
- D. H. Lawrence (8.6.38)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (9.1.2)
Artistic References
- Abbott Thayer (1.2.19)
- Mary Curtis Richardson (1.2.31)
- John La Farge (1.4.4)
- Thomas Moran (1.4.4)
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (3.2.19)
- Thomas Cole (4.7.1)
- Winslow Homer (5.1.31, referenced throughout)
- Joseph Pennell (5.1.31)
Historical References
- President Grover Cleveland (1.1.22, 7.7.68)
- George Hearst (1.1.34, referenced throughout)
- George de Kay (1.2.8)
- Henry Ward Beecher (1.2.22)
- Theodore Tilton (1.2.22)
- Lyman Beecher (1.2.68)
- Edward Everett Hale (1.2.68)
- George Washington (1.6.14)
- Lewis & Clark (2.3.83)
- Denis Kearney (3.5.13)
- Clarence King (3.6.4, referenced throughout)
- Henry Kaiser (3.6.10)
- Frank Jay Haynes (4.1.22)
- "Wild" Bill Hickok (4.1.30)
- Calamity Jane (4.1.30)
- Buffalo Bill Cody (4.1.41)
- Captain Jack Crawford (4.1.41)
- Horace Tabor (4.1.47)
- William Morris (4.4.61)
- Samuel Emmons (4.4.63, referenced throughout)
- John Hay (4.4.64)
- Rossiter Raymond (4.4.69)
- Henry Janin (4.5.13)
- William T. Sherman (4.7.6)
- Robert E. Lee (4.8.27)
- Davy Crockett (5.1.3)
- Lord Ferdinand and Lady Isabella (5.3.6)
- Edwin Lawrence Godkin (6.1.5)
- Raphael Pumpelly (6.1.6)
- Henry Villard (7.5.1)
- John Wesley Powell (7.6.11)
- Clarence Dutton (7.6.11)
- Stanford White (7.7.68)
- Bronson Alcott (8.6.77)
Pop Culture References
- Joseph Jefferson (3.2.19, referenced throughout)
- David Susskind (4.5.6)
- Grateful Dead (7.5.8)
- Last Year at Marienbad (9.1.2)