Ocupation: Historian
Life: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
Birthday: July 29
Death: April 16
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
source: Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.55
topic: Education, Drama, Reading, Huts, Henry V, Log Cabins