02623nam 22005293u 450 991077797840332120230721021632.00-8173-8197-X(CKB)1000000000762175(EBL)438182(OCoLC)609839930(SSID)ssj0000276777(PQKBManifestationID)11234755(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276777(PQKBWorkID)10226559(PQKB)11635058(MiAaPQ)EBC438182(EXLCZ)99100000000076217520131216d2008|||| u|| |engtxtccrAlias Simon Suggs[electronic resource] The Life and Times of Johnson Jones HooperTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20081 online resource (310 p.)Library Alabama ClassicsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-5361-5 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"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 ALibrary Alabama ClassicsAuthors, AmericanHomes and haunts19th centuryAlabamaBiographyAuthors, AmericanAlabamaFrontier and pioneer lifeAuthors, AmericanHomes and hauntsAuthors, AmericanFrontier and pioneer life928.1Hoole William Stanley1903-1990.1503894AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910777978403321Alias Simon Suggs3732594UNINA