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A Treasury of American folklore: stories, ballads, and traditions of the people
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Phillips OWHL - Lower Level - 300s
398 B65 1983
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398 B65 1983
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Sp Col 398 B65
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Table of Contents
From the Book
The hunters of Kentucky
Roaring Ralph Stackpole
The lion of the west
A vote for Crockett
The ballad of Davy Crockett
Telling stories vs. talking government matters
The story of a skow
Grinning the bark off a tree
The coon-skin trick
A riproarious fight on the Mississippi River
Treeing a wolf
Skinning a bear
The death hug
A sensible varmint
The fox
The tame bear
Crockett electioneering
Speech of Crockett during the canvass of 1829
Speech of Colonel Crockett in Congress
Crockett's opinion of a thunder storm
The colonel swallows a thunderbolt
Crockett's morning hunt
The shooting of the cup
Mike Fink, the Indian, and the deer
Mike teaches Peg a lesson
The disgraced scalp-lock
Trimming a darky's heel
Death of Mike Fink
Raftsman talk
Crockett's brag
Fink's brag
Hurray for me!
Bully of Salt River
Billy Earthquake
Bad man yells
Human man-eaters
The boasting drunk in Dodge
Other cowboy boasting chants
Cowboy to pitching bronco
Cowboy yells
The purple blossom of Gingham Mountain
From college to cowboy
The Pike County rip-tail roarer
A female rip-tail roarer
Washoe
Wild Bill: My first meeting with Wild Bill
The duel with Dave Tutt
Black Nell
The McCanles Massacre
The truth about the McCanles affair
"The prince of pistoleers"
The death of Wild Bill
Billy the Kid: The people remember the Kid
The "war of Billy the Kid"
Death of Billy the Kid
Song of Billy the Kid
Jesse James: Ballad of Jesse James
Jesse James and the poor widow
The death of Jesse James
Quantrell
Sam Bass: The Sam Bass Legend
The song
Stackalee
Roy Bean, law west of the Pecos: Roy Bean (song)
Necktie justice
Roy Bean, coroner
Judge Roy Bean again
Roy Bean and the Chinaman
Bean's bear
Judge Parker's sentence
Judge Benedict's sentence
Buffalo Bill's "Wild West"
The adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: Sketch of Wallace's life
How Big-Foot Wallace got his name
How he started on his journey
The St. Charles tavern
The quadroon ball
His opinion of farming
The saga of Pecos Bill
Old Stormalong, the deep-water sailorman
Bowleg Bill: The crimping of Bowleg Bill
Slickbritches the hoss-mackerel
The skipper's bull bazzoon
Paul Bunyan: Who made Paul Bunyan?
The Round River drive
The whistling river
The bedcats
Johnny Inkslinger
Pipeline days and Paul Bunyan
Febold Feboldson: Real American weather
Why Febold went to California
John Henry: John Henry, the hero
John Henry (songs)
The birth of John Henry
Casey Jones: Casey Jones, engineer
The "Casey Jones" song
The saga of Joe Magarac, steelman
Songs of Popeye
"I cannot tell a lie"
Honest Abe: The young store-keeper
Spell "defied!"
Working out a book
Johnny Appleseed, a pioneer hero
Making a noise in language, "an entire zoolgical institute"
Strong Language: Fanciful, facetious, and factitious intensifying words
Figurative expressions
Animal comparisons
Manifest destiny
The proudest bird upon the mountain
Speech on the Oregon question
The wonder state
Uncle Sam
In the land of Dixie
We will show you
Nueces River Valley paradise
We shall not want
Going to God's country
Beautiful and healthful Iowa
The Kinkaiders
A home on the range
Hawley's yarn
The first California booster story
The abundant and luxuriant produce of the west
The elephant
Busted
Disgusted
Timid but wise
I got busted
A grasshopper was seen
Hell on earth
"Oklahoma rain"
Dakota land
The Lane County bachelor
The state of Arkansas
Mining localities peculiar to California
"Hasty and grotesque"
"Slops and parings of names:
Not lovely but honest
How Louse Creek was named
"Bizarre and original place names" of Appalachia
"Circuitous styles of expression"
Illinois as it was
Hoosier
Sucker
The poorest ground you ever seen
A poor country
Hill-country wonders
Dry country
What they say on the plains
From one extreme to another
Hell in Texas
In Kansas
Salome, "where she danced"
My frog
Hot & Yumaresque
The old Indian trail
Duluth!
The Arkansas traveler
"Change the name of Arkansas? Hell, no!"
From El Paso to San Antonio.
From the Book
Backwoods boasters
Pseudo bad men
Killers
Free lances
Miracles men
Patron saints
Tall talk
The sky's the limit
Local cracks and slams
Pranks and tricks
Humorous anecdotes and jests
Yarns and tall tales
From the liars' bench
Animal tales
Nursery tales
Witch tales
Ghost tales
Devil tales
Queer tales
Play rhymes and catch colloquies
Singing and play-party games
Ballads and songs.
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9780517420577
149302535
9781493025350
149302535
9781493025350
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