[I don't find his writings to be nearly as out of touch with modern political correctness as I do Buckingham.
Some of Nash's work reflects a mindset that would be termed bigoted and racist today.
Why should we ever expect Nash Buckingham or any other writer of earlier times to ever be "in touch with anything 'modern'"? They wrote of things they knew in their times and had no inkling, nor did they give a care, of "modern times". It was just the way it was in their world - bigoted by today's standards or not, we can appreciate Buckingham's work and not be offended by it for it was of an honest, unashamed time in America. Did Buckingham ever mistreat Ho'ace or Aunt Tildy or any of his beloved "colored" friends? I should say not!! He loved them and respected them deeply and the reader, if he isn't too embarassed by 'words', can easily see that. Nash Buckingham wrote of things and people he knew and loved and in order to bring us along with him he "talked the talk".
