Wigwam and the Cabin (Simms - paperback)

Author: William Gilmore Simms

ISBN: 9781611170641

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

The Wigwam and the Cabin is a collection of border stories about the southwestern frontier. The collection is generally considered the best of Simms's short fiction. Not only do these stories draw upon the familiar subject matter of frontier humor, but they also contain stock frontier humor characters and a box narrative frame—a device that provides a cultured gentleman (outsider) who establishes the setting where an inner story is given in frontier vernacular.