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Recollections of the last ten years in the valley of the Mississippi choose

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[US] T. Flint Recollections 319: [The people of W. Florida] are a wild race, but with little order or morals; they are generally denominated ‘Bogues,’ and call themselves ‘rosin heels’.
at bogue, n.1
[US] T. Flint Recollections 208: The commandant, a priest, a file of soldiers, and a calaboza, made up the engine of Government.
at calaboose, n.
[US] T. Flint Recollections 319: [The people of W. Florida] are a wild race, but with little order or morals; they are generally denominated ‘Bogues,’ and call themselves ‘rosin heels.’.
at rosin heel, n.
[US] T. Flint Recollections 366: If I could describe its Indian powwows, its Spanish fandangos, its French balls, and its American frolics [DA].
at Indian pow-wow (n.) under Indian, adj.
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