[Ads-l] a deleted early Hoosier

[Stephen Goranson]

The authorship of "Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee" is disputed. See:

Virginia's Unknown Novelist: The Career of J. S. French, a Southern Colonel of Parts<http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/4245876?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Sketches&searchText=and&searchText=eccentricities&searchText=of&searchText=Col.&searchText=David&searchText=Crockett,&searchText=of&searchText=West&searchText=Tennessee&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DSketches%2Band%2Beccentricities%2Bof%2BCol.%2BDavid%2BCrockett%252C%2Bof%2BWest%2BTennessee%26amp%3Bfilter%3Djid%253A10.2307%252Fj101342%26amp%3BSearch%3DSearch%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3BglobalSearch%3D%26amp%3BsbbBox%3D%26amp%3BsbjBox%3D%26amp%3BsbpBox%3D>
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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Oct., 1952), pp. 551-581

The first two printings, both 1833,  differ.
The first (registered for copyright Jan. 5 in Cincinnati by James Strange French, p. 110) reads:

There is no country in the world, which can beat the Western District in originality of names, setting aside the Hoosier, Kangaroo,and Nunnery. I overheard two men bargaining for a horse: said one to the other, "I will give you two hundred dollars worth of dogs for him."....

The second (Harpers. p. 121) deletes seven words:

There is no country in the world, which can beat the Western District in originality of names. I overheard two men bargaining for a horse: said one to the other, "I will give you two hundred dollars worth of dogs for him."....

Deleted because...?

Stephen Goranson
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