Representative Works
Anthologies
The Crockett Almanac: Containing Sprees and Scrapes in the West; Life and Manners in the Backwoods, and Exploits and Adventures on the Praries. 11 vols. 1842-53
Tall Tales of the Southwest: An Anthology of Southern and Southwestern Humor, 1830-1860 [edited by Franklin J. Meine] 1930
Humor of the Old Deep South [edited by Arthur Palmer Hudson] 1936
Native American Humor (1800-1900) [edited by Walter Blair] 1937
Joseph Glover Baldwin
The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (short stories and sketches) 1853
Joseph B. Cobb
Mississippi Scenes; or, Sketches of Southern and Western Life and Adventure, Humorous, Satirical and Descriptive, including The Legend of Black Creek (short stories and sketches) 1851
Davy Crockett
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett [with Thomas Chilton] (memoir) 1834
Joseph M. Field
The Drama in Pokerville 1847
George Washington Harris
Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a “Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool,” Warped and Wove for Public Wear (short stories and sketches) 1867
The Lovingood Papers. 4 vols. (short stories and sketches) 1962-65
Johnson Jones Hooper
Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with “Taking the Census,” and Other Alabama Sketches (short stories and sketches) 1846
The Widow Rugby's Husband, A Night at the Ugly Man's, and Other Tales of Alabama 1851
Henry Clay Lewis
Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana “Swamp Doctor” [as Madison Tensas, M.D.] (short stories and sketches) 1843
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic (short stories and sketches) 1835
Stories with a Moral Humorous and Descriptive of Southern Life a Century Ago (short stories) 1912
C. F. M. Noland
Cavorting on the Devil's Fork: The Pete Whetstone Letters of C. F. M. Noland [edited by Leonard Williams] (short stories and sketches) 1979
William T. Porter
The Big Bear of Arkansas, and Other Sketches, Illustrative of Characters and Incidents in the South and South-west [editor] (short stories and sketches) 1845
A Quarter Race in Kentucky, and Other Sketches, Illustrative of Scenes, Characters, and Incidents Throughout “The Universal Yankee Nation” [editor] (short stories and sketches) 1847
Charles Henry Smith
Bill Arp, So Called, a Side Show of the Southern Side of the War [as Bill Arp] (sketches) 1866
Bill Arp's Peace Papers [as Bill Arp] (sketches) 1873
William Tappan Thompson (Joseph Jones)
Major Jones's Courtship: Detailed, with Other Scenes, Incidents and Adventures, in a Series of Letters [as Major Jones] (sketches) 1843
Major Jones's Sketches of Travel, Comprising the Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in His Tour from Georgia to Canada [as Major Jones] (sketches) 1848
Thomas Bangs Thorpe
The Mysteries of the Backwoods; or, Sketches of the Southwest: Including Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports (short stories and sketches) 1846
Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (short stories) 1867
Mark Twain's Sketches (short stories and sketches) 1874
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays (short stories and essays) 1900
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