Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Barr, John Gorman, 1823-1858, author.

Title Rowdy tales from early Alabama : the humor of John Gorman Barr / collected and annotated by G. Ward Hubbs
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1981

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : illustrations
Contents Salted him; or, An auctioneer doing all the bidding -- Old Charley and the President's veto -- Old Charley and his impromptu ride -- A hand-around supper in Alabama -- A steamboat captain's love adventure -- How Tom Croghan carved the turkey -- Spiritualism explained -- Piscatory reflections and reminiscences -- New York drummer's ride to Greensboro -- Jemmy Owen's fifty dollar note; or, 'Moind whay ye say' -- John Bealle's accident; or, "How the Widow Dudu treated insanity" -- Relief for Ireland! or, John Brown's b
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Print version record
Subject American wit and humor.
American wit and humor
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Tuscaloosa (Ala.) -- Fiction
Alabama -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Alabama -- Humor
Subject Alabama
Alabama -- Tuscaloosa
Genre/Form Fiction
Humor
Form Electronic book
Author Hubbs, G. Ward, 1952- author.
ISBN 0585273006
9780585273006
9780817304775
0817304770
0817388710
9780817388713