Detailed view for the Book: Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier

Title:

Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier
 

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Genres:

Food & Wine
Historical
Humour & Satire

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1986-01-01 Univ of Nebraska Press  

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Blurb: 
Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were, " says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." From yellowed newspapers, magazines, and forgotten Nebraska Federal Writers" Project files, well-known folklorist and humorist Welsch has produced a book to be treasured. Here are jokes, anecdotes, legends, tall tales, and lugubriously funny poems about the things that preoccupied the pioneer plainsman: weather extremes; soil quality; food and whiskey; an arkload of animals, including grasshoppers, bed bugs, hoop snakes, the ubiquitous mule, and some mighty big fish.