further antedating (?) ranikaboo (1879)

[Stephen Goranson]

If Live Search showing The Kansas Historical Quarterly, Autumn 1960,
"Some Notes
on Kansas Cow Town Police Officers and Gun Fighters," N.H. Miller and
J.W Snell,
p.302 f, here p.326 quoting the Ford County Globe, September 5, 1879, can be
relied upon (I guess yes):
[headline:] A Day of Carnival
....last Friday in Dodge City.... extricating ourselves from that stupid
lethargy which had fallen upon us of late, and were giving vent to our
uncurbed
hilarity--"getting to the booze joint," as it were, in good shape, and
"making a
ranikaboo play for ourselves." We speak in the plural number....

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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