... have never been systematically collected by any oral historian that I know of. Here is a promising dissertation subject indeed for anyone interested in political folklore. Many of them are real historical footnotes, others are apocryphal stories which could have happened, or never happened, anywhere. An example of the latter is the story of the saloon keeper, no friend of the local law ... ...

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