Catfish at the Pump: Humor and the Frontier

by Linda K. Welsch, Roger Welsch, Linda Welsch

Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were," says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." The proof is in Catfish at the Pump, a collection of the kind of humor that softened the hardships of pioneering on the Great Plains. From yellowed newspapers, magazines, and forgotten Nebraska Federal Writers' Project files, the well-known folklorist and humorist Roger Welsch has produced a book to be treasured. Here are jokes, anecdotes, legends,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803247400
• ISBN13: 9780803247406
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.