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* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: In the bibliography (titled "Proof") the author claims that, in preparing the book, he's "fixed up fact after fact to make it truer than it ever was before." |
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: In the bibliography (titled "Proof") the author claims that, in preparing the book, he's "fixed up fact after fact to make it truer than it ever was before." |
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** Jim Bridger (a.k.a. Old Gabe) is one of these in-story. His string of anecdotes about the amazing things he's seen and done ends with him describing a fight he had with a nine foot tall Indian. |
** Jim Bridger (a.k.a. Old Gabe) is one of these in-story. His string of anecdotes about the amazing things he's seen and done ends with him describing a fight he had with a nine foot tall Indian. |
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{{quote|''"Good heavens!" says the tenderfoot, standing up in his excitement. "I do not see how you survived!"'' |
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''Old Gabe looked at him, even sadder than before. "I didn't," he said. "That dratted Indian killed me. Time to turn in."'' }} |
''Old Gabe looked at him, even sadder than before. "I didn't," he said. "That dratted Indian killed me. Time to turn in."'' }} |
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* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Mike Fink wins his shooting contest with [[Davy Crockett]] when he shoots a comb out of his wife's hair. Davy could have matched him by shooting the other comb, but he refuses to point his gun anywhere near a woman. |
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Mike Fink wins his shooting contest with [[Davy Crockett]] when he shoots a comb out of his wife's hair. Davy could have matched him by shooting the other comb, but he refuses to point his gun anywhere near a woman. |
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