Fights, mock fights, reluctant fighters, and animal fights:

Anon. "Affray Between Governor Wise and Hugh R. Pleasants". Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner 11 July 1856.

Anon. "The Georgia Major in the Field." New York Spirit of the Times 15.36 (1 November 1845): 419.

Anon. " 'Horse Allen's' First Court." New York Spirit of the Times 15.21 (19 July 1845): 240.

Anon. "How Mick Shouter Came Very Near "Walloping" Arch Coony." Southern and Southwestern Sketches: Fun, Sentiment, and Adventure. Edited by a Gentleman of Richmond. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, n.d. 30-37.

Anon. "How Old Dave Hull Screamed Down the Alligator, and What Followed." Porter’s Spirit of the Times 1.19 (10 January 1857): 299-300.

Anon. "The Kentuckian Fighter." New York Spirit of the Times 15.48 (24 January 1846): 564.

Anon. "A Kentucky Fight." New York Spirit of the Times 5.50 (12 December 1835): 2.

Anon. "The Kentucky Rencontre." Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner 24 July 1849: 4

Anon. "A Mouthful of Pickled Dog." New York Spirit of the Times, 15.21 (19 July 1845): 244.

Anon. "Rather Snappish." New Orleans Daily Picayune, 5 January 1845 (no. 297). 2nd unnumbered page.

Anon. "Sloshing About." Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner, 5 May, 1854: 4

"Azul." "Ance Veasy's Fight With Reub. Sessions." New York Spirit of the Times 15. 35 (25 October 1845): 405.

"F.M." "On Marrin Widders." New York Spirit of the Times 14.4 (23 March 1844): 39.

"Obe Ilestone."The Last Duel in Loaferville." New York Spirit of the Times 14.3 (16 March 1844): 33.

Phillips, Natt. "Wedding and Deer Hunt in Kentucky." New York Spirit of the Times 9.49 (8 February 1840): 583.

"Sugartail." "The Knob Dance." New York Spirit of the Times 15.23 (2 August 1845): 267.