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Download or read book John Phoenix Esq The Veritable Squibob written by George Rippey Stewart and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1969-10-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Phoenix Esq the Veritable Squibob a Life of Captain George H Derby U S A written by George R. Stewart and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phoenixiana written by John Phoenix and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Download or read book John Phoenix Esq the Veritable Squibob A Life of George H Derby U S A With Plates Including Portraits written by George R. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book On Mark Twain written by Louis J. Budd and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in The Best from American Literature series presents articles and profiles the evolution of literary opinion and the shifts of critical emphasis. Beginning with an analysis of science in the thought of Mark Twain, the volume examines his indebtedness to literary comedians, such as George Horatio Derby, better known as John Phoenix; his contributions to the traditions of Southwestern humor; and how he employed images of endangered families. Other topics include: Twain as translator from the German; the composition and structure of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; the style of Huckleberry Finn; his first and only novel about a young girl, Joan of Arc; the four roles into which he cast Satan; the probable meaning of A Connecticut Yankee; and a thematic analysis of Pudd'nhead Wilson. ISBN 0-8223-0759-6: $33.50.

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Download or read book John Phoenix Esq the Veritable Squibob written by George R. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the annals of American humor, early San Diego figures primarily as the setting for George Horatio Derby?s most famous practical joke. Derby, who produced comic essays, verse and drawings during the 1850?s under the pseudonyms of ?Squibob? and ?John Phoenix,? is the subject of this appreciative biography, first issued by Prof. Stewart in 1937 and once more available as part of Da Capo?s ?American Scene? series. To Stewart, Derby was interesting not only as a writer whose work enlivened San Francisco?s Pioneer, New York?s Knickerbocker, San Diego?s Herald and other journals, but also as a man whose private quips and semi-public pranks generated local legends wherever his twenty years of military service took him. As an officer in the Corps of Topographic Engineers, Derby was responsible for important mapping expeditions of the Sacramento Valley, the southern San Joaquin, and (most notably) the lower Colorado River; his engineering feats included light houses on the Gulf Coast, military roads in the Northwest, and ?Derby?s Dyke,? which re-directed an errant San Diego River to its original channel into False Bay. His writings and cartoons afforded a channel of a different sort for an irrepressible comic spirit which found little chance for legitimate exercise in the normal line of duty.

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Download or read book Soldier Joker the 1849 Surveys written by Richard Paskowitz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) aka John Q.Phoenix, aka SquibobLieutenant Topographical Engineers of the United States Army. He surveyed and mapped the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys in 1849. This volume combines Derby's cartographicand literary skills (his "day" job). Derby observed and describedfirst hand the events, people, and places of the early CaliforniaGold Rush. He surveyed Camp Far West, described Sutter's HockFarm, stayed at Johnson's Crossing, and stood on theNorth Butte of the Sutter Buttes. He was at Coloma, Jamestown, Mormon'sIsland, Cordua Bar, and Rose Bar in 1849 and illustrated the gold mining process as it was occuring. He mappedthe courses of the Feather,Yuba, Bear, and Sacramento Rivers.He viewed and described the emigrants in 1849 as they arrived inCalifornia. His humorous writings as John Phoenix and Squibob werebased on first hand experiences surveying the Yuba-Sutter area.(Thiswas ten years before Mark Twain arrived in California.)

Download or read book The Soldier Joker George Horatio Derby written by Richard A. Paskowitz, M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derby was a soldier, cartographer, humorist, engineer, and practical joker. He surveyed the Sacramento Valley, the Tulare Valley, San Diego Harbor, the mouth of the Colorado River. His humor concepts were used and "expanded" by Mark Twain. He knew and interacted with General Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman. He was a classmate of George Pickett, George McClellan, and Stonewall Jackson. Derby lived in San Diego from 1853-54 in the Derby-Pendleton House, now located on the Whaley House grounds.

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