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Quotation from Travels in Alaska by John Muir
“At the first fire Toyatte fell, shot through the breast. Thus died for his people the noblest old Roman of them all”
Travels in Alaska, Chapter XIII (Project Gutenberg #7345)
The death of the canoe captain Toyatte in a feud between the Stickeen and the Taku at Fort Wrangell.
Citation: "At the first fire Toyatte fell, shot through the breast. Thus died for his people the noblest old Roman of them all" — John Muir, Travels in Alaska, Chapter XIII (Project Gutenberg #7345). (id travels-in-alaska-q6)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
