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245 02 A Treasury of American folklore :|bstories, ballads, and 
       traditions of the people /|cedited by B.A. Botkin ; with a
       foreword by Carl Sandburg. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown Publishers,|c[1944] 
264  4 |c©1944 
300    xxvii, 932 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes music. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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" -- Ilinois 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. 
650  0 Folklore|zUnited States. 
700 1  Botkin, Benjamin Albert,|d1901-1975. 
994    90|bWHP