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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777978403321

Autore

Hoole William Stanley <1903-1990.>

Titolo

Alias Simon Suggs [[electronic resource] ] : The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8173-8197-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Library Alabama Classics

Disciplina

928.1

Soggetti

Authors, American - Homes and haunts - 19th century - Alabama

Authors, American - Alabama

Frontier and pioneer life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Prologue; I "... people is more like hogs and dogs ..."; II "... Yonder goes the chicken man!"; III "... good to be shifty in a new country ..."; IV "... a rough road to travel ..."; V "... dead-as dead as a mackerel ..."; VI "... If Mr. Suggs is present ..."; VII "... then, where shall we be?"; VIII "... at liberty, is this our birth month ..."; IX "... If it be agreeable to the Convention ..."; X "... through spits of rain and snow ..."; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"When these words were written everybody had read or heard  of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a  gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and  applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And  everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850's, knew something about his  creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego,  has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that  deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole's A