Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier
Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were, " says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." From yellowed newspapers, magazines, and forgotten Nebraska Federal Writers' Project files, well-known folklorist and humorist Welsch has produced a book to be treasured. Here are jokes, anecdotes, legends, tall tales, and lugubriously funny poems about the things that preoccupied the pioneer plainsman: weather extremes; soil quality; food and whiskey; an arkload of animals, including grasshoppers, bed bugs, hoop snakes, the ubiquitous mule, and some mighty big fish.
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Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier
Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were, " says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." From yellowed newspapers, magazines, and forgotten Nebraska Federal Writers' Project files, well-known folklorist and humorist Welsch has produced a book to be treasured. Here are jokes, anecdotes, legends, tall tales, and lugubriously funny poems about the things that preoccupied the pioneer plainsman: weather extremes; soil quality; food and whiskey; an arkload of animals, including grasshoppers, bed bugs, hoop snakes, the ubiquitous mule, and some mighty big fish.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780803297128 |
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| Publisher: | Nebraska Paperback |
| Publication date: | 09/01/1986 |
| Pages: | 152 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.38(d) |
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