When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literature and Philosophy
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (1.32)
- Oliver Optic (1.39)
- Victor Appleton (1.39)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1.39)
- Tarzan (1.39), (4.96)
- The Rover Boys (1.39), (4.44)
- Tom Swift (1.39), (1.68), (8.104)
- Merlin (1.39)
- Seckatary Hawkins, The Gray Ghost (1.68), (1.87), (31.40), (31.40-47)
- Tarzan and the Ant Men (2.2)
- My First Reader (2.11)
- The Bible (2.27), (5.35), (12.126), (19.126)
- Old Testament (5.8)
- Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (11.69), (11.80), (11.84), (11.110), (11.121)
- Shadrach (12.23)
- Garden of Gethsemane (12.54)
- Blackstone's Commentaries (12.132)
- Moses (12.142), (23.59)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (17.158)
- Mr. Jingle (18.62), a character in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers
- Three Fingered Fred (31.49)
- Stoner's Boy (31.49-51)
Historical References
- Andrew Jackson (1.3), (28.45)
- John Wesley (1.4)
- Lorenzo Dow (2.18)
- Brigadier General Joe Wheeler (5.82)
- Bellingraths (8.44)
- General Hood (9.26)
- Stonewall Jackson (9.26)
- Lord Melbourne (9.174)
- Dixie Howell (11.34)
- Windy Seaton (11.130)
- Governor William Wyatt Bibb (13.30)
- Lydia E. Pinkham (13.32)
- Herbert Hoover (14.1)
- Henry W. Grady (15.22)
- Braxton Bragg (16.6)
- Robert E. Lee (17.58)
- Thomas Jefferson (20.50)
- John D. Rockefeller (20.51)
- Albert Einstein (20.51)
- Eleanor Roosevelt (24.55)
- Adolf Hitler (26.14-56))
- Elmer Davis (26.36)
- Bob Taylor (27.3)
- Cotton Tom Heflin (27.17)
Pop Culture
- One Man's Family (4.102)
- Hunt's The Light of the World (12.54)
- "Jubilee" (12.75)
- "On Jordan's Stormy Banks" (12.89)
- "Nearer My God to Thee" (15.45)
- "Amazing Grace" (24.25)
- "Sweetly Sings the Donkey" (26.12)
- Uncle Natchell (26.13)