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Ed “Parson” Sparr
“Parson” Sparr was a stagecoach driver. He got his nickname from his skill in swearing. He could swear in rhyme and ‘it would flow from his mouth like poetry from a minstrel singer.’ He had the ability to drive six horses on a tough road with one hand and roll a cigarette with the other at fifty degrees below zero.1)
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Bert Parker edited by Lulu M. Fairbanks, “I've Been Thinkin.” Alaska Weekly (Seattle), 3 July 1936.
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