Crockett set the backwoods type. See treatment of him
in Parrington's _Main Currents in American Thought_. Richard
M. Dorson's _Davy Crockett, American Comic Legend_, 1939, is a
summation of the Crockett tradition.
FEATHERSTONHAUGH, G. W. _Excursion through the Slave States_,
London, 1866. Refreshing on manners and characters.
FLACK, CAPTAIN. _The Texas Ranger, or Real Life in the
Backwoods_, London, 1866.
GERSTAECKER, FREDERICK. _Wild Sports in the Far West_. Nothing
better on backwoods life in the Mississippi Valley.
HAMMETT, SAMUEL ADAMS (who wrote under the name of Philip
Paxton), _Piney Woods Tavern; or Sam Slick in Texas_ and _A
Stray Yankee in Texas_. Humor on the roughneck element. For
treatment of Hammett as man and writer see _Sam Slick in
Texas_, by W. Stanley Hoole, Naylor, San Antonio, 1945.
HARRIS, GEORGE W. _Sut Lovingood_, New York, 1867. Prerealism.
HOGUE, WAYMAN. _Back Yonder_. Minton, Balch, New York, 1932.
Ozark life. OP.
HOOPER, J. J. _Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs_, 1845. OP.
Downright realism. Like Longstreet, Hooper in maturity wanted
his realism forgotten. An Alabama journalist, he got into the
camp of respectable slave-holders and spent the later years of
his life shouting against the "enemies of the institution of
African slavery.
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