Unnamed Real Estate Speculators

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2790
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Unnamed Real Estate Speculators
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Unnamed Real Estate Speculators
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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In his conversation with Cass about human, and specifically Southern history in Go Down, Moses, Ike generalizes about a number of different kinds of men who, according to him, were responsible for causing the Civil War. This entry refers to what he calls "the wildcat manipulators of mythical wilderness townsites" (273).