Bowleg Bill the Sea-Going Cowboy.

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Item #50596
Bowleg Bill the Sea-Going Cowboy.
Digges, Jeremiah.
Viking Press, ( 1938), New York
20 cm. 188 pp. b/w chapter heads
Price: $25

A minor New England classic, this collection of yarns and tall tales, ala Paul Bunyan, is told in humorous dialect, meant to replicate the speech of the old salts of Cape Cod. The stories were gathered by “Jeremiah Digges” (Josef Burger) under the auspices of the Federal Writers Project. a wide-ranging Depression-era cultural support program that kept many starving artists, writers, and historians from starving. First edition, about very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket.

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