Bibliograph

Type

Label

Native American humor, Walter Blair

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Native American humor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

525886

Responsibility statement

Walter Blair

Summary

Selected American humor, some excerpted

Table Of Contents

[Part 1] Down East humor, 1830-1867 -- The humor of the Farmer's almanac -- Jack Downing's letters and other dockyments -- The sayings of Sam Slick / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- Passages from The Biglow papers / James Russell Lowell -- Mrs. Partington / B.P. Shillaber -- Widow Bedott's monologues / Frances M. Whitcher -- [Part 2] The humor of the old Southwest, 1830-1867 -- Tall talk -- Georgia scenes / Augustus Baldwin -- A tight race considerin' / Madison Tensas -- Simon Suggs / Johnson J. Hooper -- Georgia comedy / William Tappan Thompson -- The big bear of Arkansas / T.B. Thorpe -- The standing candidate / John S. Robb -- Ovid Bolus, Esq. / Joseph G. Baldwin -- Comic happenings in Tennessee / George W. Harris -- The harp of a thousand strings / Henry Taliareffo Lewis -- [Part 3] Literary comedians, 1855-1900 -- Phoenixiana / George Horatio Derby -- The writings of Artemus Ward / Charles Farrar Browne -- Letters of Petroleum V. Nasby / David Ross Locke -- Orpheus C. Kerr's childhood / Robert Henry Newell -- Bill Arp's correspondence / Charles Henry Smith -- Josh Billings' meditations / Henry W. Shaw -- The haunted man / Bret Harte -- New Year's calls / Melville D. Landon -- Life in Danbury / J.M. Bailey -- Life in an odd corner / Charles Heber Clark -- The brakeman at church / Robert J. Burdette -- Bill Nye's adventures in politics / Edgar Wilson Nye -- Mr. Dooley to Mr. Hennessy / Finley Peter Dunne -- [Part 4] Local colorists, 1868-1900 -- In California / Bret Harte -- In the Middle West / Edward Eggleston -- Sam Lawson's New England stories / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Remus's Negro stories / Joel Chandler Harris -- [Part 5] Mark Twain, 1835-1910 -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The facts concerning the recent resignation -- European guides -- Baker's blue-jay yarn -- [Huck's visit to the raft]

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