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Related Websites

David Ross Locke.  Maintained by Mark Lause   
A biography of David Ross Locke. Includes several excerpts from the Nasby Papers.
David Ross Locke. maintained by Toledo's Attic, a virtual museum of Toledo.
Obituary for Locke.
The Laughter of the West by Fred Lewis Pattee.
A section about Nasby from Pattee's History of American Literature.
The Literary Commedians and the Language of Humor  by David B. Kesterson,  North Texas State University.  Studies in Americana. 
An overview of early American humorists.
Petroleum V. Nasby.  Maintained by Mark Lause.
Charles Sumner's  introduction to The Moral History of America's Life-Struggle (Boston: I.N. Richardson and Company, 1866), 13-16 
Petroleum V. Nasby on SocialismMaking of America digital library project, Cornell University Libraries.
Facscimile of article in "Manufacture and Builder, September 1886.
Some Northern Humorists: Before and After the Civil War maintained by Dr. Paul McQuien, San Antonio College. 
Lists of major works of American Humorists of the Civil War Era.

 

 

Print Resources

Arp, Bill.  Bill Arp from the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903. Atlanta, GA: The Hudgins Publishing Company. 1903

Austin, James C.  Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke).  New York:  Twyane Publishers, 1965.

Blair, Walter.  Native American Humor.  New York:  American Book Co., 1937.

Clemons, Cyril.  Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby.  Groves, MO: Webster. 1936

Estes, Joseph A.  "Locke, David Ross."  Dictionary of American Biography XI: 336.

Harrison, John M.  The Man Why Made Nasby:  David Ross Locke.  Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Jones, Joseph. "Petroleum V. Nasby Tries the Novel:  David Ross Locke's Excursions into Political and Social Fiction."  University of Texas Studies in English 30 (1951), pp. 202-218.

Paine, Albert Bigelow.  Th. Nast, His Period and His Pictures.  New York: Macmillan, 1904.

Pond, J.B.  Eccentricities of Genius. New York:  Dillingham, 1900.

Ransome, Jack Clifford.  "David Ross Locke:  Civil War Propagandist."  Northwest Ohio Quarterly 20: 144-158. Summer 1948.