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UNISOBSOBE00054040 |
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UNINA9910777978403321 |
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Hoole William Stanley <1903-1990.> |
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Alias Simon Suggs [[electronic resource] ] : The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2008 |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Authors, American - Homes and haunts - 19th century - Alabama |
Authors, American - Alabama |
Frontier and pioneer life |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 |
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"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, |
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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 |
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