Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations - 3: Go West, Young Man

[Fred Shapiro]

This is not really an antedating, but rather a correction of OED.  The
1851 citation under _west_, adv. 1.b.(b), is completely erroneous.  See
Yale Book of Quotations and the article by Thomas Fuller in _Indiana
Magazine of History_, Sept. 2004.

Fred Shapiro


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