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Word: kaintuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western humor. But what had happened to the play that first made him famous? Until last week, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Colonel Rides Again | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Wildfire: Stationed-yes! But don't mean to stop long. Old Kaintuck's the spot. There the world's made upon a large scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Colonel Rides Again | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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