geniwine

Updated: May 24, 2025

When we ask how he overcame the natural difficulties of trade lack of commission houses, varying standards of money, want of systems of credit and low prices due to the glutting of the market when hundreds of flatboats arrived in the South simultaneously on the same freshet we are informed that "Billy Earthquake is the geniwine, double-acting engine, and can out-run, out-swim, chaw more tobacco and spit less, drink more whiskey and keep soberer than any other man in these localities."

Archer Butler Hulbert - The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway