"This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty-five years' most significant writing on the humor of the Old Southwest, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor."--BOOK JACKET.