Hervey Allen — American Author born on December 08, 1889, died on December 28, 1949

William Hervey Allen was an American author... (wikipedia)

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.