Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers: Together with "Taking the Census" and Other Alabama Sketches | Zendy

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Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers: Together with "Taking the Census" and Other Alabama Sketches

Author(s) -

Scott C. Martin,

Johnson Jones Hooper

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

journal of the early republic

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1553-0620

pISSN - 0275-1275

DOI - 10.2307/3124510

Subject(s) - census , adventure , genealogy , history , archaeology , law , demography , sociology , geography , political science , art history , population

Originally published in 1845, "Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs" is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, it is good to be shifty in a new country, fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics."

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