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BUT HE BACKSLID Camp Meeting Ghost Tale Draws Collection in Sugar Creek Bottoms
A Kansas City Star excerpt recounts a camp meeting at Ent Fork where Aunt Nancy the cook spins a ghost story of a gorilla outlaw who exhorts a pistol shooting cadre. The tale ends with a hymn and a collection to bury three soldiers, illustrating backsliding and fevered imagination among the party. A second anecdote from the Musical Courier features Lt. John Philip Sousa noting a hotel stairway encounter with a cleaning woman who misrecognizes him before being invited to a concert.
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Ent Fork
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Sugar Creek
Randolph County
Jerry Hardover
Dimamykrats
Co’t House
Bill Anderson
Frank
Jesse James
Mr. Quantrill
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Parson Hardover
Kansasity Star
John Philip Sousa
St. Louis
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Mual Courier