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...characters in the history of U.S. drama, Colonel Nimrod Wildfire of Kentucky occupies a special place. He claimed to be "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...

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

...Kansans have improved on Nimrod and the late Martin Johnson by developing a new method of rabbit hunting. They merely reach under rocks and grab whatever they can find. To date they score seven rabbits, have embarrassed no fellow Kansans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...mighty hunter before the Lord was Nimrod, but his laurels have been seriously challenged by Daniel Crockett Hoeing, History 1's ace of of aces, for early yesterday morning he came upon a muskrat prowling up and prowling down the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoeing Wards Off Amazed Muskrat With Stick Until Yard Cops Aid Him in Making Slaughter | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

Tristram, the learned Nimrod among hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...Missing Link (Syd Chaplin). Akka, agreeable chimpanzee, makes merry in this mad jungle frolic. Funnyman Syd Chaplin plays an animal-timorous poet-stowaway who is forced to impersonate a big-game Nimrod in the search for the missing link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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