Don B Wrote:
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> What year was the term "Iron Horse" was used to describe the american steam locomotive?
Searched ["Iron Horse" etymology]: [
www.google.com]
The earliest mention I could find was "
Iron horse "railroad locomotive" is from an 1839 poem." [
www.etymonline.com], about 38% down the page.
Tried to find that poem -- [
"Iron Horse" poem 1839] -- but couldn't. Closest I got was a citation from
Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America, by Stephen P. Rice; see it here: [
books.google.com].
A bonus find from my search was
Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations, edited by Andrew Dow: [
books.google.com]. You may find it at
Amazon or
ebay.