During the early part of the nineteenth century, the Southwestern
frontier moved from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,
through Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, to Missouri, Arkansas
and Louisiana. Using a variety of styles and subjects, humorists in
the frontier states of the Southwest wrote tall tales and humorous
stories that made use of dialect and emphasized cruelty, violence,
and depravity, in rebellion against the sentimental morality of
conventional literature. Such tales flourished from 1835 through
1861 and helped buffer the pioneers during their everyday
hardships. The humorists' stories, though exaggerated, were often
rooted in the real characters and incidents of the frontier and as
such serve as a social history of the period. Many of these stories
were originally published in local newspapers and reprinted in
William T. Porter's Spirit of the Times. Although the popularity of
this type of humor died out with the beginning of the Civil War,
its influences can be seen in the works of Mark Twain, William
Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Wolfe. The bibliography
lists works about Southwest humor in general and by and about nine
major humorists including David Crockett, Joseph Glover Baldwin,
George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, Henry Clay Lewis,
Augustus Baldwin Longstreeet, Charles Fenton Mercer Noland, William
Tappan Thompson, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. These two main sections
are supplemented by author and general subject indices. As the
first book-length bibliography in this field, Humor of the Old
Southwest will make a useful tool in academic libraries and will
find a place in collections of folklore, American literature, and
humor.
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