| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 2992 |
| QUOTATION: | Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tearin’ sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Quoting Isaac Van Bibber, Jr., in an early-19th-century appeal for volunteers for an expedition to the Rockies. Missouri: A Guide to the “Show Me” State (The WPA Guide to Missouri), p. 141, in “Literature,” Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1941). |
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