The Courtship and Adventures of Jonathan Homebred: Or The Scrapes and Escapes of a Live Yankee is a novel written by Sam Slick Jr. and published in 1860. The book follows the life and adventures of the titular character, Jonathan Homebred, a young man from New England who sets out to make his fortune in the world. Along the way, he encounters a variety of colorful characters and gets into a number of scrapes and adventures, from getting lost in the...