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What were some of James Whitcomb Riley's first works?

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Under the name "Benj. F. Johnson of Boone" he began to write verse in the Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875, selections first collected in The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems (1883).

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