ah, google books playing up again...
--- On Thu, 13/9/12, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Model Citizen
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, 13 September, 2012, 14:15
> Interesting refs Giles./
>
> Despite the Google dates, Grinnell's book is subtitled
> Memoirs 1850-1890 and the Louisiana planter article is from
> 1899. Webber's book must be from about 1850, his dates are
> 1819-1855.
>
> In the second chapter of the book he describes the murderous
> yet public-spirited character that Webber nicknames the
> "model citizen". The "model citizen" will seem quite
> familiar to readers of Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes
> - an admired public figure with a Bowie knife.
>
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