Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier

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.

Author: Roger Welsch
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 08/19/1986
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.02w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780803297128
ISBN10: 0803297122
BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Form | Essays