Item - Wild Bill of Mississippi

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 22 no. 19 — page 3
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXII, no. 19, March 28, 1867 (Issue)
Companion Story:	Peter, the Wild Boy
Author:	Thornton, Theodore, M. D.
Date:	March 28, 1867
First Sentence:	I am reminded by the thrilling account of "Peter, the Wild Boy," which recently appeared in the New York Weekly, to give the history of a strange child of the forest and the swamp, which was brought to my notice in 1818, while I was pursuing some investigations of the causes and treatment of yellow fever in Louisiana, and, for that end, had a temporary engagement as physician to a large sugar plantation as the best mode of sustaining myself while getting the insight I was seeking.