Title: Tales and sketches, from the Queen City
First published: 1838
Description: This volume contains thirteen tales or sketches, several of which were published in the Hesperian and other periodicals in the 1830s.

-The Queen City
-The Novice of Cahokia
-Putting a Blackleg on Shore
-The Baptism
-The Yankee Colporteen
-The Grave of Rosalie
-The Burial by Moonlight
-A Kentucky Election
-Visit to the Blue Licks
-Trying on a Shoe
-The Battle of Brindle and the Buckeyes
-The Buried Canoe
-The Flag-Bearer
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio)