Great American Folklore includes:
Where the Road Forks and the River Bends: Travelers' Tales;
The Hills Beyond: Pioneer Tales;
The Fightin' Spirit;
Hunting and Fishing Yarns;
Love and Marriage;
Preachers and Their Congregations;
Witches, Ghosts, and Strange Events;
Animal Tales;
Country Life and Country Laughter;
That Wild, Wild West;
The Cowboy: Funny, Tough, and Lonesome;
The Tall Tales of Swappers, Liars, and Boasters;
Paul Bunyan and His World;
Further Reading;
Index of Tall Tales and Legends; and
Index of Superstitions and Miscellaneous Love.
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One man's flat is another man's sharp,
By R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Great American Folklore: Legends,Tales, Ballads and Superstitions from All Across America (Hardcover)
We all grew up thinking this was great stuff ( Wyatt Earp and all),but Native American studies changed my perspective some! Some lies get retold so many times that they become history: such are many of the tall ( and some short) tales in this book from growing America. People were European when they hit the coasts. The land and killing Indians for it made them hard and set them to drinkin'. Language like "Dag nab it" and "darn" was invented to put off Auld Licht preachers. People who could make biscuits from scratch fixins had butter on their green beans too... Each place and small group of people marked important happenings with lies about it: the more important the happenings the bigger the lies, so that trains and steamboats rated right up there with cowboys and gunslingers. These stories are just one way of looking at what really happened.
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