Great American folklore: legends, tales, ballads, and superstitions from all across America
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| adam_text | Great American
Folklore
LEGENDS, TALES,
BALLADS, AND
SUPERSTITIONS
FROM ALL ACROSS
AMERICA
Compiled by
Kemp P Battle
Illustrated by
John M Battle
DOUBLEDAY amp; COMPANY, INC
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xix
Chapter 1 Where the Road Forks and the River
Bends: Travelers Tales l
The Arkansas Traveler • Davy Crockett and the Fiddler in the
River • How Uncle Steve Interpreted Spanish • How Johnny
Appleseed Brought Apple Blossoms to the West • Nail Soup •
Ohio Roads • A Pallet on the Floor • The Six Thousand Year
Principle • Ain t Lost • Lodging in Kansas • Michigan
Bedbugs • A Yankee Finishes His Meal • A Frequent Mover
• The Hoosier and the Salt Pile • A White Elephant •
Hands Up! • An Experienced River Pilot • Mississippi
Sounding Calls • Steamboats Are Dangerous • It s All
Right, Captain • Nehemiah Flufkins s Visit to the City • On
a Slow Train Through Arkansaw • The Ballad of Casey Jones •
Lingo of the Rails • Traveling Superstitions • The Traveler s
Homecoming
Chapter 2 The Hills Beyond: Pioneer Tales 45
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas • Daniel Boone s Tale of the
Three Notches • Bewildered Boone • • That s John s Gun!
• A Mighty Strange Turkey • A pioneer Woman Fights Back
• How Muldrow Found His Neighbor • A Savage Santa Claus
• The Trapper s Hello • The Trappers Camp • The Day
Jim Bridger Ran Off • Old Gabe to the Rescue • Joe Meek s
Mule • Watch What You Say • A Long Way for Advice •
The Death of a Mountain Man
Chapter 3 The Fightin Spirit 93
Too Long Between Fights • Yankee Doodle • How Mike
Fink Beat Davy Crockett in a Shooting Match • Mike Fink and
the Deacon s Bull • Tough Fighters • Bingo • Snake
Thomson, a Good Fiddler • The Texas Rangers • The Fight
• The Talking Match • • The Blacksmith Duel • The Last
Duel in Ohio • The Good-Old Rebel • The Yank Reunion •
xii CONTENTS
Mormon Zack Wastes No Time • Silver Jack • The Sissy
from Hardscrabble County • John Henry, the Steel-Drivin Man
• The Hatfield-McCoy Feud: How It Started • Mose
Humphreys, the Fighting Fireman • Strap Buckner, the
Fightingest Man • The Death of Crockett
Chapter 4 Hunting and Fishing Yarns 153
How Jack Wood Got Thin • The Tale of the Dog with the
Upside, Downside Legs • Mart Moody s Bird Dog • Pretty
Baby • A Hand-Caught Rabbit • Running the Fox • A
Shooter with a Heart • Accommodating Deer Why I Never
Shoot Bears • Bee Hunting in the Ozarks • A Fine Bloonlin
Shot! • The Buck or the Bullet • Major Brown s Coon Story
• A Coon-Hunt in a Fency Country • Davy Crockett Meets His
Match • An Underwater Robbery • When We Isn t We •
Hunting Superstitions • Shotgun Charlie Goes Fishing • A
Hard-Drinking Snake • The Fish Rider • The Saucer-Back
Halibut • Old Joe, the Legendary Catfish • Crooked Stream
• Grant s Tame Trout • Fishing Superstitions • Anything a
Man Can Do, a Woman Does Better
Chapter 5 Love and Marriage 203
High Horse s Courting: A Sioux Love Story • Buffalo Gals •
Jemima, What Have You Done to Me? • Old Smoky • Joe
Bowers • Frankie and Johnny • A New England Courtship
• A Frontier Love Story • - Crockett Pops the Question •
How Daniel Boone Found His Wife • Black-Eyed Susie •
Superstitions: Love and Marriage • • Weddings, Frontier Style •
Square-Dance Calls • The Bride- and Groom of Pisgah • The
Mermaid • The Queen of the Bull-Whackers • ~ Birthing,- the
Frontier Way • Superstitions: Pregnancy and- Infants • A
Close Call I Once Loved a Young Man • A Patient Wife •
A Wise Husband • Old Whiskers • Why Womens Is
Sharper dan Mens • She Wanted a Divorce • Sweet Betsey
from Pike • De Ways of de Wimmens • Harvey and Myra
Chapter 6 Preachers and Their
Congregations 257
If Only the Angels Knew • What Did He -Say? • The
Fighting Parson j Predestination for the Indian • The
CONTENTS xiii
Deacon s Testimony • The Stolen Wedges • Soapy Smith
Preaches- to the Damned • Little Mercies -• A Parson s
:Supper • Cheesebox Church • Faith and Expectation •
Powers of Concentration • Catching the Lord • Last Licks
• An Oilman Helps Out • How They Sing in the City •
Advice on Sin • The Settin Up • Dividing Up the Souls •
Bundle of Troubles _• Toll em Heavy Superstitions About
Faith • The Reformation of- Uncle Billy
Chapter 7 Witches, Ghosts, and Strange
Events 299
Granny Frone • Old Ferro • The Hag of Plymouth •
• Hoodoo • The Tale of the Talking Eggs • The Black Cats
Are Talking -• The Sick Man s Ghost • The Miser s Gold •
The- Ghostbuster •--Supernatural Superstitions • Death
Superstitions- • The Mystery Star • The Seven-Year Light on
Bone Hill • The Death-Watch Tick- Fiddler s Dram •
An Epitaph • The Girl with the Lavender Dress •
Chapter 8 Animal Tales 1 339
Coyote Turns into a Buffalo: A Pawnee Myth • The Wonderful
Tar-Baby Story « How Mr Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr Fox
• What the Guinea Hen Says • Lissenbee • • Sheer Crops •
Never Hold Your Head Too High • How Sandy Got His Meat
• De Knee-High Man • Two-Toe Tom • The Boll Weevil
Song • Animal Superstitions
Chapter 9, Country Life and Country
Laughter 367
Trespassers Beware • A Melting Story • Racing the Train «
The New Telephone Wire • When You Don t Know, Guess •
The Razorback Hog • A Family Pet: • Pig or Puppy •
Quit While You re Ahead • Little Brown Jug • Moonshiners
• Thanks Just the Same • A Little More Cider • A Still
Tongue Makes a Wise Head • A Long-Handled Shovel • Paw
Won t Like This • Ask the River :• A Mean Grocer The
Vinegar Queen s Supper • The • Boardinghouse • East Texas
Episode • The Man from Texas: • Keep Going • Oolah!
Oolah! • Crockett Gets the Votes • Change the Name of
xiv CONTENTS
Arkansas?- • Fitting Epitaph • Hog-Thieves Hanging
Together • How Do You Plead? • Shotgun Charlie s Sage
Advice • Listen to the People Talk • Riddles • Children s
Rhymes
Chapter 10 That Wild, Wild West 409
The West • Another View of the West • The Shallows of the
Ford • The Robbers and the Widow • Jesse James Meets
Wild Bill • The Fateful Northfield Raid • Doc Holliday •
Wyatt Earp Plays a Lone Hand - • Shoot-out at the O K Corral
• Butch Cassidy Robs the Payroll Train • Stackalee • Sam
Bass • Hang Me, O Hang Me • Judge Parker, the Hanging
Judge • Roy Bean as Coroner • Law-Abiding Folks •
Judge Three-Legged Willie • The Death of Billy the Kid •
The Death of Wild Bill • On the Dodge • Outlaw Women •
Calamity s Bet • Annie Oakley Makes Her Name • The
Disappointed Tenderfoot • The Wild, Wild West Show «
Annie Oakley s Twilight
Chapter 11 The Cowboy: Funny, Tough, and
Lonesome 493
Home on the Range • Too Much Talk • A Cowboy s
Comforts • No Complaints • A Rare Steak • Advice to a
Cowboy • All in a Day s Work • Longrope s Last Guard •
The Kansas Line • What the Cowpoke Saw • Good-Hearted
Cowboys • Tact • Bone Mizell Buries a Buddy • The
Saga of Pecos Bill • Jim • An Honorable Genealogy •
Lost in Heaven • A Cowboy Finds a Friend • A Poor Bet •
The Cowboy s Lament • The Speckled Yearlin • Cowboy s
Last Request
Chapter 12 The Tall Tales of Swappers, Liars,
and Boasters 537
A Stubborn Critter • The Mare with the False Tail • How a
Dog Made Pete Andrews Rich • Crazy for Whiskey • The
Fireproof Pitch • The Fish-Boning Machine • The Truth
About Liars • Bill Greenfield, a Great Liar • A Cold Day • •
A Good Imitation • John Darling, an Even Bigger Liar • Big
Mosquitoes • Big Wind at Hurley • Sandstorm Yarns •
CONTENTS XV
Ira and Tom Build Fences • Weather Lore • The Deep Snow
• The Boy and the Turkeys • Well-Dressed Turkeys • Some
Liars of the Old West • The Hickory Toothpick Climbing
the Ladder • A Long Name • A Long High Jump • A
Bear for Work • A Scared Crow • Hoop Snakes • The
Swollen Hoe Handle • The Soft-Soaped Mule • Can Rats
Read? • The Cat with the Wooden Paw • The Boomer s
Hound • Sam Patch, the Jumping Man • The High Divers
• Casey at the Bat • Febold Feboldson, the Most Inventingest
Man • Gib Morgan and the Whickles • Gib s Biggest Rig •
How Gib Invented Rubber Boots • How Gib Saved His Tool
Dresser
Chapter 13 Paul Bunyan and His World 599
Paul Bunyan s Birth • Babe, Paul Bunyan s Blue Ox •
Heavy-Timbered Land • Why the Great Lakes Have No Whales
• The Lumberman s Song • The Round Drive • How Paul
Bunyan Cleared North Dakota • Tony Beaver Meets Paul
Bunyan
Further Reading 637
Index of Tall Tales and Legends 641
Index of Ballads and Verse 645
Index of Superstitions and Miscellaneous Lore 646
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