Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865-1895
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/lcolor.html
What is local color fiction?
Background to the Short Story
http://ftp.ccccd.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesshortstory.htm
Additional discussions about local color.
19th Century American Literature
http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~rgrosser/19calit.htm
This site contains information on American Literature. See the Mark Twain discussion.
Notes on "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
http://www.gckschools.com/vhs/eng3/Spring/realism/frognotes.htm
Discussion of Mark Twain and use of local color.
The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/lit5.htm#clemens
The rise of realism in American Literature.
Mark Twain: America’s Regional Original
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0896/ijse/twain.htm
Information of Mark Twain, the regionalist.
