Pecos Bill

[Jonathan Lighter]

The Great Pumpkin  - now there's a folk hero !

  What will your article about PB say, Charlie ?

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Charles Doyle
Subject: Pecos Bill
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As chance would have it, I am just finishing up a short article on the early history of Pecos Bill, that is, before 1923, when--it has been assumed--the character was first inserted into popular or fakeloristic tradition. There does exist a LITTLE evidence of such an prior existence.

--Charlie
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From: Jonathan Lighter
Subject: Re: Pecos, Pecosin', Pecos Swap
Comments: To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

Disney notwithstanding, "Pecos Bill" began his fictive life in 1923, the brainchild of Edward O'Reilly, who wrote "The Saga of Pecos Bill" for the _Century_ magazine.

No dollar-a-day-and-found puncher ever told a Pecos Bill story in his life. Till after '23, that is. And durned uncommonly then, either.

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