"Across the Wide Missouri" again

David D. Robertson ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Fri May 17 05:47:06 UTC 2002


I just plain don't remember if this info's been posted here before, & am an
exhausted babysitter who won't check, so in summary:

In a 1997 issue of the SSILA Bulletin, I find that our list member Anthony
Grant contributed a nice letter about the movie "Across the Wide
Missouri".  He noted that it sounded like pretty good by-the-book (Edward
Harper Thomas' relatively famous, popular guide) Chinook Wawa, and that
there may be as much as some 10 minutes of Jargon speech in the movie.  It
would, as Anthony pointed out, be of some interest to research the making
of this movie in order to find out why and how Jargon was used in it.

Cheers,

-- Dave



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