"Change the Name of Arkansas"

Wed Feb 16 17:38:13 UTC 2005

J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, ed. 2 (Dallas: SMU Press, 1953), ch. VIII (also online) :

"'Change the Name of Arkansas'...in 1919 in officers' barracks at Bordeaux, France, I heard a lusty individual recite [it] with as many variations as Roxane of Cyrano de Bergerac wanted in love-making."

JL

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