A local legend in his own lifetime, he became a national folk hero with the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." ...

A local legend in his own lifetime, he became a national folk hero with the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." ...

Boston? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow launched an obscure Boston patriot into stardom with his 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Longfellow exercised some poetic license when he tinkered with the ...