| Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier Contributor(s): Welsch, Roger (Author), Welsch, Linda K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803297122 ISBN-13: 9780803297128 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1986 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Humor | Form - Essays |
| Dewey: 817.009 |
| LCCN: 86004295 |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.02" W x 8.64" (0.47 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |