THOMPSON, WILLIAM T. Major Jones's Courtship, Philadelphia, 1844. Realism.
THORPE, T. B. The Hive of the Bee-Hunter, New York, 1854. This excellent book should be reprinted.
WATTERSON, HENRY. Oddities in Southern Life and Character, Boston, 1882. An anthology with interpretative notes.
WILSON, CHARLES MORROW. Backwoods America. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1935. Well ordered survey with excellent samplings.
WOOD, RAY. The American Mother Goose, 1940; Fun in American Folk Rhymes, 1952; both published by Lippincott, Philadelphia.
9. How the Early Settlers Lived
DESPITE THE FACT that the tendency of a majority of early day rememberers has been to emphasize Indian fights, killings, and other sensational episodes, chronicles rich in the everyday manners and customs of the folk are plentiful. The classic of them all is Noah Smithwick's The Evolution of a State, listed below.
See also "Backwoods Life and Humor," "Pioneer Doctors," "Women Pioneers," "Fighting Texians."
BARKER, E. C. The Austin Papers. Four volumes of sources for any theme in social history connected with colonial Texans.