Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Texts -- Introduction: The Humor of the Old South -- or, Transgression He Wrote -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) -- Georgia Theatrics -- The Horse-swap -- The Fight -- Solomon Franklin Smith (1801-1869) -- A Tennessee Door-keeper -- The Consolate Widow -- Speculation In Whiskers -- An Un.nished Obituary -- Charles F. M. Noland (1810-1858) -- Pete Whetsone's Bear Hunt -- Pete Whetsone's Last Frolic -- Pete Whetstone And The Mail Boy -- William Tappan Thompson (1812-1882) -- The Major In An Embarrassing Situation -- The Christmas Present In A Bag -- The Runaway Match -- Or How The Schoolmaster Married A Fortune -- George Washington Harris (1814-1869) -- Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse -- Parson John Bullen's Lizards -- Sut Lovingood Reports What Bob Dawson Said, After Marrying A Substitute -- Well! Dad's Dead -- Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862) -- Simon Plays The "snatch" Game -- Captain Suggs And Lieutenant Snipes "court-martial" Mrs. Haycock -- The Captain Attends A Camp-meeting -- Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) -- Simon Suggs, Jr., Esq. -- Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815-1878) -- The Big Bear Of Arkansas -- Letters From The Far West: Letter 2 -- Letters From The Far West: Letter 7 -- Letters From The Far West: Letter 10 -- Letters From The Far West: Letter 12 -- Henry Clay Lewis (1825-1850) -- A Tight Race Considerin' -- The Indefatigable Bear Hunter -- A Struggle For Life -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) -- The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County -- The Story Of The Old Ram -- Frescoes From The Past -- David Crockett (1786-1836) -- Bear Hunting In Tennessee -- A Love Adventure And Uproarious Fight With A Stage Driver -- "Riproarious Shemales": Legendary Women of the Crockett Almanacs -- Sal Fink, The Mississippi Screamer, -- Katy Goodgrit.

One Of Crockett's Infant Children, Grinning Lightning At A Bear -- The Flower Of Gum Swamp -- Joseph Gault (1794-1879) -- A Constable Selling 'coon Skins -- A Justice Commanding The Peace -- The Drunkard's Resurrection In His Morning Shroud -- James Edward Henry (1796-1850) -- My Man Dick -- Hamilton C. Jones (1798-1868) -- Cousin Sally Dilliard -- Mcalpin's Trip To Charleston -- William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) -- Ephraim Bartlett, The Edisto Raftsman -- Joseph M. Field (1810-1856) -- A Lyncher's Own Story -- Kicking A Yankee -- Hardin E. Taliaferro (1811-1875) -- Uluncle Davy Laned L -- Ride In A Peach Tree -- The Pigeon Roost -- Rev. Charles Gentry -- The Origin Of Whites -- Jonah And The Whale -- John S. Robb (1813-1856) -- Nettle Bottom Ball -- Or, Betsy Jones' Tumble In The Mush Pan -- Fun With A "bar." A Night Adventure On The Missouri -- Christopher Mason Haile (1814-1849) -- Dear Chase. -- Pardon Jones On The Rio Grande -- Adam Geiselhard Summer (1818-1866) -- Natural Angling, Or Riding A Sturgeon -- Orlando Benedict Mayer (1818-1891) -- The Innocent Cause, Or How Snoring Broke Off A Match -- William C. Hall (c. 1819-1865) -- Mike Hooter's Bar Story: -- How Sally Hooter Got Snake-bit -- Francis James Robinson (1820-1872) -- Lije Benadix -- Old Jack C- -- Marcus Lafayette Byrn (1826-1903) -- Spontaneous Ebullition In A Drunkard -- The Resurrection, Or How To Take Up A Negro -- Southern Frontier Humor: A Selected Bibliography -- About The Editors.