Hunter 1889

[Dave Robertson]

Here's another book with a lively point of view.  Sometimes too lively for 
some folks' taste, I imagine.  He repeatedly uses the phrase "good Indian
(s)" [as in "the only good Indian is a dead one"] in reporting the death 
of Indigenous people.  But a merciful change from the Victorian norm is 
his slangy delivery throughout.  

Hunter, George.  1889.  Reminiscences of an old timer.  Battle Creek, MI: 
Review and Herald.  

This man seems to have worked, lived, and battled in every part of Jargon-
speaking country in the 1850s and onward.  His reminiscences of Jargon are 
in idiosyncratic spellings, suggesting they're firsthand, not cribbed from 
some popular book for local color.  An example is his phrase "Nika cupet 
wa-wa" for "I have finished speaking."  

This book is more evidence for the currency of Jargon in the upper 
Columbia (Palouse) region circa 1880.  A couple years earlier, to be 
accurate.  

--Dave R

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