Unnamed Local Friends of Gualdres

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3634
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Unnamed Local Friends of Gualdres
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Unnamed Local Friends of Gualdres
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Yes
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Although Sebastian Gualdres’s Mississippi friends in "Knight's Gambit" include "all sorts of people," the Whitmanian type tends to dominate the description of them: "out-of-doors men, usually bachelors" (174). The range of occupations they are identified with is wide: from "farmers" to "mechanics"; "a civil engineer," "a professional horse-and-mule trader," "two young men on the highway maintenance crew" and "a locomotive fireman" (174).