The Saturday evening post (1910) (14577510130)

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Title: The Saturday evening post

Year: 1839 (1830s)

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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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WHEN a Ken-tucky moun-taineer issent to the peni-tentiary the chancesare that he gets soreeyes from the whitewalls that inclosehim, or quick con-sumption from thethick air that hebreathes. It wasentirely in accord- -ance with the run ofhis luck that AnseDugmore should getthem both, the soreeyes first and thenthe consumption. There is seldomanything that ispicturesque aboutthe man-killer ofthe mountain coun-try. He is lackingsadly in the roman-tic aspect and thedelightfully studiedvernacular withwhich an inspiredschool of fiction hasinvested our West-ern gunfighter. Noalluring jingle of belted accouterment goes with him, no gift of deadlyhumor adorns his equally deadly gunplay. He doeshis killing in an unemotional, unattractive kindof way, with absolutely no regard for costumeor setting. Rarely is he a fine figure of a man. Take Anse Dugmore now. He had a short-waisted,thin body and abnormally long, thin legs, like the shadowa man casts at sunup. He didnt have that steel-gray eyeof whi

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