Big stiff
big stiff
Historical Examples
Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine
The Shriek Charles Somerville
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
The Rosie World Parker Fillmore
The Land of Strong Men Arthur M. Chisholm
Black Star’s Campaign Johnston McCulley
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Alexander Berkman
The Brighton Boys in the Trenches James R. Driscoll
The Attache Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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