Caleb Catlum's America: The Enlivening Wonders of His Adventures, Voyages, Discoveries, Loves, Hoaxes, Bombast and Rigmaroles in All Parts of America, from His Birth in 1798 Almost to the Present Year, Told by Himself

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Book by Vincent McHugh; Stackpole sons, 1936. 342 pgs.

Title Page

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Memory of the Oldest Inhabitant

1. Seals and Geese

2. a Haul of Flying Pigs

3. My Pop a Grommet-Hunter

4. Mom Speaks Her Piece : : We Set Out an Orchard : : Memoirs of Eric the Red Catlum : : Escape from London : : a Batch of Butter-Haired Girls : : Eric in Vinland : : Nelly : : Twenty Days in a Wickiup : : His Children : : Distiller and Inventor : : He Builds a Sloop and Goes Down the Coast : : First of the Trader : : White Men in Florida

5. Eric the Red and Ponce De Leon

6. Mom Concludes I Am Et by a Bear

9. the Girls of Boston

10. a Letter from Pop Recommending Me to Dr. B. Franklin in Philadelphia Goodbye to Fancy and Aunt Roberta the Old Tory

11. I Leave Uncas in New York

12. No Mazuma

13. Down into Virginia : : the Old Woman : : a Recipe for Primrose Vinegar : : Signs of Isaac : : Ruffians Take Some Pot-Shots at Me I Meet Sam Slick and Expose His Wiles : : Kibitzer Injuns : : the Hanged Spanish Soldier : : Eric's Comrade : : I Go Over the Palisade into Catlumville

14. a Frontier Station

15. the Streets of Hell : : a Five-Day Mule- Train : : 300 Flatboats at Owensboro : : Hog-Eyes and Burning Bush and Death-'N'- Damnation Mose : : Women and Hound-Dogs : : a Little Quarrel : : the Beautiful Ohio : : My Mule Barney : : We Trade Some Whoppers Carolina Parrots : : a Break-Down : : I Win the Gals

16. Big Muddy

17. Memphis-Under-The-Hill

18. Life on the Lever

20. a Bed of Roses

21. Barney the Prodigal : : We Start Upriver : : the Town of Luna : : Bucksaw in the Clearing : : the Biggest Negro in the World : : Two Crackers Saw Him Up for Firewood Black Sawdust : : Their Argument Pig Sandwiches Name of John Henry : : I Buy Six or Eight Cords of Wood the Natchral Man : : Blood- Brothers

22. John Henry Pushes the Keelboat Upriver : : His Uncle Remus Fable of the White and Black Tribes : : a Backwoods Shivaree the Masked Marvel : : Grandpop Again News from Home : : a Gander-Pull : : I Meet the Hood That Shot at Me and Settle His Hash : : Mike Fink : : a Shooting- Match : : Me and Grandpop and Mike Fink and Davy Crockett and Dan'L Boone : : the Seeds of the Apples : : I Stand Up with Boone : : Mike Fink Joins Up We Reach St. Louis

23. Lewis and Clark at St. Louis : : Camp for the Winter : : Lewis a Book-Reader : : the Expedition Starts Up the Missouri in the Spring : : the Catlum Monicker : : the Colonel and the Grizzly : : I Fork a Buffalo Bull Barney is Missing : : Killed by a Bear John Henry Gets Mad : : a Military Funeral : : Barney's Epitaph

24. Hide-And-Seek in the Thousand Islands

25. a Chin-Pest in Charing Cross's Lodge

26. News of a Big River

27. Head of Navigation : : We Start into the Rockies : : John Henry's Feats of Bone and Brawn : : He Rides an Avalanche : : We Give Up Eating : : the Frozen Men : : Down the Far Side : : the Columbia : : I Turn Medico Again We Sight the Pacific : : I Make Up a New Flag

28. I Make Chowder from Beavers' : : Tails the Lakotas Pull a Fast One : : John Henrys Heavy Dreaming : : the Glass Gal : : I Set Him to Rights : : We Decide to Hit Down into California : : Loco-Weed Cigarettes : : I Invent the Human Balloon : : the Boys Kite Back Over the Mountains Without Us

29. Hankering for the Womenfolks : : Pig-A- Back Up Amongst the Tall Sequoias : : "The Little School in the Treetops" : : John Henry's Mumbo-Jumbo : : a Haunch of Deer Fortuition : : We Lose Our Meal Tickets : : Story of John Henry and the Boss Man : : the Kibitzer Bear

30. Rain in California

31. John Henry Eats a Mess of Limpets and Shrinks Down to Man-Size

32. Ten Thousand Seals : : I Talk Pidgin to the King : : John Henry's Plan : : a Little Philosophy : : We Go Native : : the King Initiates Us : : "The Brother with a Plate on His Back" : : Benny Has Devil-Take-The Hindmost Ways : : Limpets Again : : We Think About Marrying : : No Color Line : : a Bosomy Young Widder : : Me and John Henry Get the Knot Tied : : Benny Goes Home to His Little Queen : : Babies and Bridge : : Nineteen Young Sorrel-Tops : : a Sail

33. the Yankee Brig

34. Rothschilds and Belindas

35. Greenwich Village

36. Mi-Mi-Mi-Mi-Mi

37. One Hundred and Fifty Million Per Annum

38. I Take John Henry Down a Peg Full Gale to Lollapaloosa :: Sitting on the Bottom :: a Rainbow Palace :: Mermaids and Drowned Sailors :: Davy Jones Shows Us 'Round the Locker :: a Catlum from the Maine Stem :: His Entertainments :: John Henry Gets Restless :: Balloon- Juice :: We Swim to Bermuda and Light Out for New York

39. John Henry's Lilac Suit : : a Letter from Catlumville : : Bierstuben in Yorkville : : I Cry at the Drop of an Edelweiss : : John Henry Brings Home His Gal : : Nobody but Polyantha : : a Triangle on Our Hands : : I Do the Gallant Thing : : John Henry Founds Harlem : : His Night Club : : the Wedding of John Henry and Polyantha : : a House on Sugar Hill : : a Big Red Apple

40. Uncas a Father of Babes : : He Makes Me an Honorary Chief : : No Summer : : the Rabbits' Social and Dance : : a Whopping Blizzard : : the Lights of Home : : Work, for the Night is Coming : : Mom Makes a Great To-Do Over Me : : My Cousin Paul Bunyan from Maine : : Babe the Blue Ox : : a Gabfest : : I Get Wind of Isaac the World-Changer's Work : : Shifting the Temperate Zone : : What the Zone is : : I Rig Up a Scheme : : We Start Downriver with a Load of Wood

41. Nothing but a Breeze

42. I Plan to Go A-Whaling

43. Aunt Roberta Again

47. Last of Spreckles

48. Grandpop a Playboy

49. We Start Out with Grandpop's Thingumajigs : : "Devil-Horses" : : a Trigger-Man : : I Fix His Wagon : : Bill Rides Out a Stampede : : the Jumbo Rabbits : : Me and Bill Play a Little Faro Match Race Proposed : : $500,000 or Over : : a Canteen of Corn Likker : : Two Hundred Miles to the Gallon : : I Win the Race and Take Possession of the Territory

50. Telegraph Poles

51. Aboard the Famous Eclipse

52. the Civil War : : We Keep Shifting Back and Forth from Blue to Gray : : a Family Feud : : I Get Caught 'tween the Lines in Confederate Pants and a Union Tunic : : Pop Tries to Put a Stop to It : : the First Day of Gettysburg : : Pop in His Buckskin Shirt : : John Henry Weeping : : They Shoot Pop Down : : the Catlums Carry Him Back to the Dressing Station : : an Old Codger Named Walt Whitman

53. the Catlum Womenfolks Nursing for Both Sides

54. Craze for Railroading the Gold Spike

55. Milly's Lonesome Ballads : : Catlumville Hits the Trail for South Dakota : : I Light Out for Home : : a Rattlesnake Named George : : My Frisky Jethros : : Pop and the Traders They Begin to Take Over the Country a Corner in Gold : : I Decide to Cook Jim Fisk's Goose : : New York Again : : Goldie Gold He Gives Me the Lowdown

56. Me and Goldir Drive Down to Fisk's Grand Opera House : : a Run-In with Hoodlums : : or Believe Me and Fair Marvard : : Brandy and the Dolls : : Jim Fisk a Word-Slinger : : I Give Him Tit for Tat He Pulls a Poor Mouth the Muzzlers George to the Rescue

57. Frogs' Legs for George

58. Me and Goldie Light Out West

59. the Country Goes Trader

60. the Big Pow-Wow

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