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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers (Chapel Hill Books)
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers - Chapel Hill Books Author:Johnson Jones Hooper These pioneer sketches of the antics of a backwoods gambler in the flush times of the old Southwest are a landmark in the development of American humor and the "tell-tale tradition." In 1844 this new figure stalked out of the brush into American picaresque literature. Gaunt, disheveled Captain Simon Suggs, always profiting but never thriving by ... more »his shameless roguery, spoke for a whole gallery of frontier rascals when he drawled, "It's good to be shifty in a new country."« less