LONGSTREET, A. B. _Georgia Scenes_, 1835. Numerous reprints.
Realism.

MASTERSON, JAMES R. _Tall Tales of Arkansas_, Boston, 1943.
OP. The title belies this excellent social history--by a
scholar. It has become quite scarce on account of the fact
that it contains unexpurgated versions of the notorious speech
on "Change the Name of Arkansas"--which in 1919 in officers'
barracks at Bordeaux, France, I heard a lusty individual
recite with as many variations as Roxane of _Cyrano de
Bergerac_ wanted in love-making. When Fred W. Allsopp,
newspaper publisher and pillar of Arkansas respectability,
found that this book of unexpurgations had been dedicated to
him by the author--a Harvard Ph.D. teaching in Michigan--he
almost "had a colt."

MEINE, FRANKLIN J. (editor). _Tall Tales of the Southwest_,
Knopf, New York, 1930. A superbly edited and superbly selected
anthology with appendices affording a guide to the whole field
of early southern humor and realism. No cavalier idealism. The
"Southwest" of this excellent book is South.

OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW. _A Journey in the Seaboard Slave
States_, 1856. _A Journey Through Texas_, 1857. Invaluable
books on social history.

POSTL, KARL ANTON (Charles Sealsfield or Francis Hardman,
pseudonyms). _The Cabin Book; Frontier Life_. Translations all
OP.