Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 10 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:
...led American humor belongs distinctively to the West.
The early humorists were mostly of Eastern origin, though bred and emancipated in the Westthus Artemus Ward was from Maine, Josh Billings from Massachusetts , and Orpheus C. Kerr and Eli Perkins from New York.
The prince among these jokers was Artemus Ward, who as a lecturer glided noiselessly upon the stage as if dressed for Hamlet, and looked as surpr...
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| † | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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