This 1858 volume joins Henry Clay Lewis’s Louisiana Swamp Doctor, written as Madison Tensas, with John S. Robb’s Streaks of Squatter Life and western scenes. A young doctor learns his trade among the canebrakes and bayous of the Yazoo country, while Robb’s sketches tell of steamboats, races, rattlesnakes and backwoods characters.
A key text of Old Southwest humour, whose grotesque comedy and racial attitudes are those of the slaveholding South. Download the free EPUB.