Southwestern Humor and Mark Twain
About the storytelling genre that originated in the frontier region of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri in the decades before the Civil War -- and influenced Twain. Includes examples of writings.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/southwes.htm
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Southwestern Humor, 1830-1860
Introduction to the tradition of regional sketches and tales based in the "old South-West": Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/swhumor.htm
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