.png "Return to Catalog Home")
- Browse the Catalog
- » Catalog Search Results
- » A Treasury of American folklore: stories, ballads, and traditions of the people
A Treasury of American folklore: stories, ballads, and traditions of the people
Average Rating
Publisher
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Publication Date
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language
English
Summary
Loading Description...
Table of Contents
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.
From the Book
Heroes and boasters: Backwoods boasters: A vote for Crockett
The ballad of Davy Crockett
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
Mike Fink, the Indian, and the deer
Mike teaches Peg a lesson
Death of Mike Fink
Pseudo bad men: Crockett's brag
Fink's brag
The boasting drunk in Dodge
Other cowboy boasting chants
Cowboy to pitching bronco
Cowboy yells
From college to cowboy
Washoe
Killers: Wild Bill [Hickok]
Billy the Kid
Jesse James
Quantrell
Sam Bass
Stackalee
Free lances: Roy Bean, Law west of the Pecos
Buffalo Bill's "Wild West"
The adventures of Big-Foot Wallace
Miracle men: The saga of Pecos Bill
Old Stormalong, the deep-water sailorman
Bowleg Bill
Paul Bunyan
Febold Feboldson
John Henry
Casey Jones
The saga of Joe Magarac, steelman
Songs of Popeye
Patron saints: Honest Abe
Johnny Appleseed, a pioneer hero.
Boosters and knockers: Tall talk
The sky's the limit: Uncle Sam
Nueces River Valley paradise
Going to God's country
A home on the range
The first California booster story
The abundant and luxurious produce of the West
The elephant
A grasshopper was seen
Hell on Earth
"Oklahoma rain"
Dakota land
Local cracks and slams: Mining localities peculiar to California
Dry country
What they say on the Plains
From one extreme to the other
Hell in Texas
In Kansas
Hot & Yumaresque
The Old Indian Trail
"Change the name of Arkansas? Hell, No!"
From El Paso to San Antonio.
Jesters: Pranks and tricks: "Sheepmen" in Montana
A sheep herder from Yale
"A sheepman ain't got no friends"
The cowboy and the riveter
How to make rattlesnake soup
A snipe hunt
Tying a cow's tail to his boot strap
Cheating a greenhorn
Humorous anecdotes and jests: Predestination for the Indian
The Baptist ox
Essence of rural humor
The talking mule
The bear fight
The goat that flagged a train
Deer-hunting story
Racing the train
The damaged locomotive
The boy and the colt
"Little Moron"
Eli Perkins on mean men.
Liars: Yarns and tall tales: The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
The jumping frog
How to tell a story
The saga of Little Ab Yancey
Thar she blows!
A Texas norther
Mirages
The wind
The rawhide railroad
Big Frank
The boomer fireman's fast sooner hound
From the liars' bench: Black Harris and the Putrified Forest
Mushmouth Charlie's lecture on the petrified forest
The wild Texan tells some big stories
Some liars of the old West
Stories told around the camp fire
"Nothing to what I have seen"
Rich land, poor land
The turnip
Paul's Oklahoma farm
Idaho potatoes
Differences betwixt clear-water rivers and muddy-water ones
Giant insects
Gallinipper and mosquito
Tough yarns
Remarkable tenacity of life
Grasshoppers
Famous wind storms
In Colorado
Hail and farewell
The sway-back horse
Pulling teeth
Just set
John Hance, Darby, and the Grand Canon
Tall jumping
"You jus' ain't seen no real guns"
"Good shootin'"
Shooting match
Salvanus Cobb, Jr., on long range shooting
Cougar tamers
Big as an Idaho potato
They make excellent pets
A bear for work
A family pet
A pet trout
The fence that moved
Paul Bunyan on the water pipeline
Tall tales of the mines
Yarns of the sea
Birds and beasts
Paul Bunyan natural history
Fearsome critters.
Folk tales and legends: Animal tales
Nursery tales
Witch tales
Ghost tales
Devil tales
Queer tales.
Song and rhymes: Play rhymes and catch colloquies
Singing and play-party games
Ballads and songs: Ballads
Songs of sailormen and rivermen
Lumberjack songs
Cowboy songs: The Old Chisholm Trail
Git along, little dogies
The buffalo skinners
Rye whiskey
I ride an old paint
Trail to Mexico
The cowboy's lament
Miners' songs: What was your name in the States?
Sweet Betsey [Betsy] from Pike
Lousy miner
My sweetheart's the mule in the mines
Me Johnny Mitchell man
Down, down, down
Songs of the farmer: Seven-cent cotton and forty-cent meat
Wayfaring stranger
Hobo and jailhouse songs: Hallelujah, bum again
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
Pie in the sky
Hard times in the Mount Holly Jail
The roving gambler
Worried man blues
Mountain songs: Sourwood Mountain
Cripple Creek
Cindy
Careless love
Down in the valley
Negro [African-American] songs: The midnight special
Lord, remember me
Boll weevil song.
Excerpt
Loading Excerpt...
Author Notes
Loading Author Notes...
More Details
Contributors
Botkin, Benjamin Albert,1901-1975 editor
Buffalo Bill,1846-1917
Sandburg, Carl,1878-1967 writer of foreword
Buffalo Bill,1846-1917
Sandburg, Carl,1878-1967 writer of foreword
ISBN
9780517420577
149302535
9781493025350
9780517679784
149302535
9781493025350
9780517679784
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
