The rampaging frontier; manners and humors of pioneer days in the South and the Middle West

I quit reading this book. It's not that it is uninteresting, but I wasn't enjoying it. For my taste, there was too much use of vernacular and dialect; it became annoying to me. I was hoping it was a collection of anecdotes from individuals in the frontier days, but instead the author had gone through collections and decided to tell about incidents and people in his own words, mimicking theirs. Somehow it made the whole thing dull for me.