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Mike Fink : : king of Mississippi keelboatmen / / by Walter Blair and Franklin J. Meine.
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Identifier: F353 .B62
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How Mike Fink was born, how he spent his boyhood, and how he served, during his youth, as an Indian scout -- How Mike Fink became a keelboatman, and how he made his first trip to New Orleans -- How Mike Fink was a boatman for many years, winning fame up and down the rivers as a joke and a fighter -- How Mike performed marvelous feats of marksmanship and hunting -- How the King of the Keelboatmen routed the dangerous outlaws of Cave-in-Rock [Cave-in Rock?] -- How Mike Fink became a trapper, and...
Native American humor (1800-1900) : / by Walter Blair..
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Identifier: PN6161 .B633
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Selected Bibliography -- SELECTIONS: Down East Humor: The Humor of The Farmer's Almanac -- Seba Smith -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- James Russell Lowell -- B.P. Shillaber -- Frances M. Whitcher -- The Humor of the Old Southwest (1830-1867): Tall Talk -- Madison Tensas -- Johnson J. Hooper -- William Tappan Thompson -- T.B. Thorpe -- John S. Robb -- Joseph G. Baldwin -- George W. Harris -- Henry Taliaferro Lewis -- Literary Comedians (1855-1900): George Horatio Derby -- Charles Farrar Browne...
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