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...summer by the mint-cool falls. But the era was short-lived. After the Erie Canal was completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade in white pebbles, which they hawked as "congealed Niagara spray." The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James...
Insistent Mumble. He talked just under an hour (his father once filibustered 15½ hours straight), and after a fast start, his oratory became only a pale reflection of his father's roaringest. But neither he nor any of his Southern colleagues extended themselves. They didn't have to: the sessions lasted only from noon to dinner; everyone had plenty of time to rest. The filibusterers were satisfied to maintain their legislative blockade with a kind of insistent mumble, waiting for the Administration to get tired, or make a mistake...
Around the time of the Civil War, Nevada's Virginia City, site of the fabulous Comstock Lode, was the wildest, hell-roaringest mining town in the world. Men who arrived haggard, filthy and penniless soon made thousands of dollars a week from the blue-black silver ore, gorged themselves on oysters, caviar, champagne. The streets thundered all night with brawling, boozing, wenching. Sam Brown, one of the first "bad men" of the old West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments...
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