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FURTHER READING

Blair, Walter, ed. Native American Humor (1800-1900). New York: American Book Company, 1937, 573 p.

Anthologizes major short pieces from the nineteenth century and provides an informative introduction and bibliography.

Blair, Walter and Raven I. McDavid, Jr., eds. The Mirth of a Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983, 302 p.

Like Native American Humor, anthologizes nineteenth-century American humor writing, but specifically seeks to salvage dialect humor from literary oblivion.

Cohen, Hennig and William B. Dillingham, eds. Introduction to Humor of the Old Southwest, pp. xiii-xxviii. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1964.

Describes Southwestern humor as a combination of social history and folk tale.

Cox, Samuel S. Why We Laugh. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1876, 448 p.

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Overviews
4. The Old Southwest
5. Broader Impacts
6. Women Humorists
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright