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

Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggsis 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.Hooper, Johnson J. is the author of 'Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together With "Taking the Census" and Other Alabama Sketches Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers Together With "Taking the Census" and Other Alabama Sketches' with ISBN 9780817307066 and ISBN 0817307060.