The big bear of Arkansas, and other sketches, illustrative of characters and incidents in the South and South-West. / Edited by William T. Porter. With illustrations by Darley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, William Trotter, 1809-1858, editor.

Contributor:

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, illustrator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--Southern States.

Short stories, American.

Southern States.

Short stories, American--Southwest, New.

Southern States--Fiction.

New Southwest.

Southwest, New--Fiction.

Southwest, New.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

University of Pennsylvania. Philomathean Society Library (stamp)

Physical Description:

xii, 13-181 pages : frontispiece, plates. ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1845.

Contents:

The big bear of Arkansas / by T.B. Thorpe, Esq. of Louisiana

Jones's fight, a story of Kentucky / by an Alabamian

The great Kalamazoo hunt, a story of Michigan / by a New-Yorker

That big dog fight at Myers's, a story of Mississippi / by a Mississippian

How Simon Suggs "raised Jack," a story of Georgia / by an Alabamian

Swallowing an oyster alive, a story of Illinois / by a Missourian

A Texan joker "in a tight place," a story of that ilk / by an Editor

Billy Warrick's courtship and wedding, a story of the "Old North State" / by a County court lawyer

A bully boat and a brag captain, a story of steamboat life on the Mississippi / by Sol. Smith

Letter from Billy Patterson himself, "Who hit Billy Patterson?"

A swim for a deer, a story of Mississippi / by the "Turkey Runner"

Chunkey's fight with the panthers, a thrilling hunting adventure in Mississippi

A Yankee that couldn't talk Spanish / by John A. Stuart, Esq. of South Carolina

"Old Sense" of Arkansas / by "N." of that ilk

Stoke Stout, of Louisiana / by Thorpe and Patterson, of the "Concordia intelligencer"

Life and manners in Arkansas / by an ex-governor of a cotton-growing state

Anecdotes of the Arkansas bar / by a backwoods lawyer

Hoss Allen, of Missouri

Pulling teeth in Mississippi / by Uncle Johnny

The way "Lige" Shaddock "scared up a jack"

Cousin Sally Dilliard, a legal sketch, in the "Old North State."

Notes:

Added t.-p., engr.

"Stereotyped by J.C.D. Christman & Co. T.K. & P.G. Collins, Printers."--T.p. verso.

Publisher's advertisements (1 leaf) at end.

Bound with: À Beckett, The comic Blackstone (Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1844)

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has circular ink blot which has covered part of the frontispiece illustration.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of Philomathean Society Library.

Cited in:

Wright, v.1, #2061

OCLC:

2613936