George Washington Harris, like many Southwest humorists, was an adventurer and jack-of-many-trades--among them metalworker, journalist, steamboat captain, farmer, politician, and railroader. Like many...
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Of obscure reputation in the twentieth century, except among a few scholars and writers, George Washington Harris had a large popular following in his own time, beginning in the 1840s. His Sut Lovingo...
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The author of one major collection of fiction, George Washington Harris wrote in the tradition of Southwestern humor, with its comic exaggerations, tall tales, rural dialects, and democratic challenge...
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George Washington Harris