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Seeking "Alligator Jack"
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Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:46:22 -0500
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Is there a Twain sketch titled "Alligator Jack" -- separate
from what Twain wrote in _Life on the Mississippi_ -- about
Captain/Major John (Jack) B. Downing as described at this web
site for "Historic Middleport" Ohio ?

http://www.meigscountytourism.com/facts.htm

The same story is alluded to at a Downing family website at:

http://www.expage.com/page/alligatorjack

Thanks,
Barb

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