Divers Views, Opinions, and Prophecies of Yoors Trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby
Cincinnati, Ohio: R. W. Carroll & Co., 0867. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, 424 pp., 8 BW illus. A satire of mid-19th-century American history, politics, and culture, written in twangy rural vernacular and from the point of view of the fictional author Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, "Lait Pastor uv the Chuch..... More