BALDWIN, JOSEPH G. _The Flush Times of Alabama and
Mississippi_, 1853.

BLAIR, WALTER. _Horse Sense in American Humor from Benjamin
Franklin to Ogden Nash_, 1942. OP. _Native American Humor_,
1937. OP. _Tall Tale America_, Coward-McCann, New York, 1944.
Orderly analyses with many concrete examples. With Franklin J.
Meine as co-author, _Mike Fink, King of Mississippi River
Keelboatmen_, 1933. Biography of a folk type against pioneer
and frontier background. OP.

BOATRIGHT, MODY C. _Folk Laughter on the American Frontier_.
See under "Interpreters."

CLARK, THOMAS D. _The Rampaging Frontier_, 1939. OP.
Historical picturization and analysis, fortified by incidents
and tales of "Varmints," "Liars," "Quarter Horses,"
"Fiddlin'," "Foolin' with the Gals," etc.

CROCKETT, DAVID. _Autobiography_. Reprinted many times.
Scribner's edition in the "Modern Students' Library" includes
_Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in_
_Texas_. Crockett set the backwoods type. See treatment of him
in Parrington's _Main Currents in American Thought_. Richard
M. Dorson's _Davy Crockett, American Comic Legend_, 1939, is a
summation of the Crockett tradition.

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, G. W. _Excursion through the Slave States_,
London, 1866. Refreshing on manners and characters.