Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850, edited with an introduction by Fritz Oehlschlaeger

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Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850, edited with an introduction by Fritz Oehlschlaeger

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edited with an introduction by Fritz Oehlschlaeger

Instantiates

• Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850

Publication

• Columbia, University of Missouri Press, ©1990

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

Hoaxes and predicaments. The second advent ; 'Squire Squegle's twelve ; June bugs ; The man who was looked at ; A crawfish story ; Puss-eyeism vs. Mormonism ; Dropping the subject ; Speculation in whiskers; or, shaving in a broker's office ; "That last julep!" A short temperance story! ; An incident before marriage -- The river. Captain sopht ; "Passenger ashore" ; "Fast on a bar" ; Of the deference due to steamboat waiters ; A fight in the hold ; "Picked up!" ; Tom Harris' wink ; A free country ; The "Three sixes." A pilot's dream ; Bob White's adventure at Vicksburg ; Who's at the wheel? -- Ring-tailed roarers and tall tales. Squire Funk's awful mistake ; Lige Shattuck's reminiscences of Mike Fink ; Judge Magraw's yarn about a mocking bird and a jackass ; A buffalo tale ; A great blow out in Michigan ; "Panther Evans" ; "Fighting the tiger" -- Frontier theater. A fifth act resurrection ; The flying machine ; Stage directions ; Behind the scenes ; "Old sol." Once more ; Getting on the "Free list" ; Manager for a minute ; Getting rid of Brandon -- Eccentric characters. "Loafer Jim" ; The ambitious man ; Kicking a yankee ; "Kicking a yankee" ; Queer characters ; A sucker in search of the planters' house ; "Solitaire" and a Peter funk ; Full of life ; The lethean! -- Army life. Tennessee tactics ; A night attack ; Whipping a circus ; The barrel movement. A sketch of camp life on the Rio Grande ; The nimble shilling! A sketch of early history -- A satiric look at frontier institutions. Valor and its "Better part" ; A duel in Fairview. Being a sequel to the historical society ; The pumpkin dance and moonlight race. One of the western border tales ; Khaustiff correspondence ; A lyncher's own story ; Popular entertainments -- "The fun of our settlement." Eight letters by Bill Sapper to his cousin

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20992853

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24 cm

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xiii, 282 pages

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9780826207418

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(alk. paper)

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90030389

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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.b40520961

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(OCoLC)20992853