The Marengo Jake stories : the tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton / Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.

By:

Burton, Robert Wilton, 1848-1917

Contributor(s):

Mitchell, Jake

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2007]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780817380342
0817380345
0817354743
9780817354749

Uniform titles:

De remnant truth

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marengo Jake stories.DDC classification:

813/.4 22

LOC classification:

PS1229.B62 D4 2007eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The "Marengo Jake" Stories; M'renger; M'reener: How Uncle Jake Interviewed a "High-Drawin'" Ram; Marengo Mud: Old Jake's Story of the Bottomless Slough; Three Little Boys and Three Little Fishes; Marengo Jake Plays Another Trick on the Three Boys; Seismic Phenomena -- Explained by a Marengo Scientist; Christmas in Marengo; Jake and Miss Emmer; Tripping Jake; The Marengo Prestidigitator; Marengo Jake: A Romance of Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; Jake Cornered; A True Story: How Marengo Jake Elected Cleveland.

Summary: Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called ""Marengo Jake."" Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was brought to the Drake Plantation in Marengo county as a boy in the 1850's. After the Civil War, th.

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Previously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.

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Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called ""Marengo Jake."" Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was brought to the Drake Plantation in Marengo county as a boy in the 1850's. After the Civil War, th.

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