[DL] Lone Stars Question (Yiddish speaking Rangers)

[mcellis@umich.edu]

    I recently got Lone Stars and found it to be a very good Deadlands 
book. But I have one question about the tone of the book's writing. I've 
always enjoyed the way Deadlands is narrated by characters that actually 
live in the setting.
    That General King is the author of Lone Stars and wrote it in his 
"Ranger Voice" is pretty cool. But why does a Texas Ranger General in 1878 
speak Yiddish? He is constantly talking about kicking various people in the 
"Tuckus". Now I realize that to keep the book's language relatively clean 
he couldn't say "Kick their ass", But he could have used Keister and kept 
just as clean and been more in line with the common "Western Speak" of 
Deadlands.

Unless of course He learned "Tuckus" from a Polish Rabbi traveling to Shan 
Fan he helped out, and just liked the sound of it.