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The Big Bear of Arkansas

short story by Thorpe

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In Thomas B. Thorpe
Thorpe’s “The Big Bear of Arkansas” (published in 1841 in the New York City magazine Spirit of the Times) was so outstanding a tall tale that some historians have named certain southwestern contemporaries of Thorpe the Big Bear school of humorists.
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