Class Bias in Probate Records

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In a message dated 08/24/2002 6:57:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes:


> Elliot Gorn has an article about fighting on the frontier in early US.
>  Wimps fought with guns.  Tough guys used to try to tear each other apart.
>  Gouging eyeballs was especially respected.

Have you got a cite on the Gorn article?  I know he wrote a whole book on 
prize-fighting, _The Manly Art_ was it?

Jacob Conrad