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Questionable humor aside, the writings of Eldred Kurtz Means, popular then, are ignored today because of their racist stereotyping which contributed to white supremacist thinking in the early 1920s. Gene Andrew
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The following passage employed nonstandard spelling. ... : "It wus a bad time for me when I come to
Tickfall. I'm shore had bad luck; but ef dar warn't no bad luck, I wouldn't hab no luck at all."
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