Baghdad-on-the-Hudson (NY Sun, 1903?)

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Jul 25 01:20:30 UTC 2003


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    "Baghdad-on-the-Hudson" was O. Henry's nickname for New York City.
> It's not used much now in 2003.  (Can't figure out why.)  The
> nickname/story appeared in THE FOUR MILLION (1906).

Are you saying this was the title of a story?  I'm not seeing it among the
stories in The Four Million.

Fred Shapiro


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