A book titled for one of these people tells of one of them and his son both being killed by the fangs of a snake embedded in a pair of boots. A book titled for one of these people that contains descriptions of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard ends with its narrator forming a plan to go to a Native American village to escape the American Revolution. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote a collection titled for (*) “Letters from” an American one of these people. Barbara Kingsolver chronicled moving to the Appalachians to become one of these people in a book whose title replaces the last word in a common phrase with “Miracle.” The oldest continuously published almanac is an “Old” one named for these people. For 10 points, what type of person is “in the dell” in a common nursery rhyme? ■END■
ANSWER: farmers [accept Letters from an American Farmer or The Old Farmer’s Almanac or “The Farmer in the Dell”; prompt on homesteader or cultivator]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, American Literature>
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