Book of Donmon Teith

The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flo

Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new mil

As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its afterm

Now back in print: A collection of old Southern humor. Reissue.

"For more than a quarter-century, despite the admirable excavations that have unearthed such humorists as John Gorman Barr and Marcus Lafayette, the most signif