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1891. Riley was known as the Hoosier poet. He was at various times a traveling actor, a sign painter, and a newspaperman. Under the name Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone he began to write verse in the Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. These were first collected in The Old Swimmin-Hole and Leven More Poems. Riley's verse was popular because of its humor, pathos, simplicity, and sentimentality.Johnson, Benjamin F. is the author of 'Old Swimmin Hole and Leven More Poems Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm Life' with ISBN 9780766198081 and ISBN 0766198081.
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