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Singerman ID#supp1575

Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp1575

Gerstäcker, Friedrich. Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1859. xi, 396 p.

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On pp. 70-71, a humorous retelling of a camp fire encounter with two German-Jewish pack peddlers fearful of being robbed by the author. On pp. 375-76, the author recalls his visit to Louisiana’s Bayou Sara region where German Jews specializing in the sale of ready-made clothes undersell one another.