Too fast nowadays - Amen to that.

Buck dancing is not the same thing as buck & wing dancing. Neither is deer dance interchangeable with buck dance; if either actually existed outside Euro-American 'horse opera' romanticism.

The rise of American circus minstrel buck/clog/tap dance coincidences with the rise of stepdance in Ireland; the 19th century mass immigration to America and the newer post-Civil War "Irish" sub-genre of American minstrelsy.

Does 'speculation' on 'probabilities' and 'appearances' really need to go so far afield as the culinary habits of pirates and Tupi Indians?