Folklore from one of the most colorful periods of American history: anecdotes, tall tales, yarns, humor, local legends, and traditions. Tales of the famous such as Billy the Kid, Deadwood Dick, Calamity Jane; tales of Marshalls, lumberjacks, sailors, Spaniards, and Mexicans. Foreword by Bernard DeVoto.

Western Tales: Treasury of Western Folklore

Politics & Social Sciences

BOTKIN, B.A.

Social Sciences

Random House Value Publishing

More than five hundred stories and thirty songs tell much about the colorful history of the river and the ways of the river folk

A Treasury Of Mississippi River Folklore: Stories, Ballads and Traditions of the Mid-American River Country

American Legacy Press

Treasury of American Folklore

This spectacular collection of five hundred stories and one hundred songs represents the best of American tall tales, yarns, myths, ballads, and more, about such legends as Buffalo Bill and Jesse James.

Treasury of american Folklore

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Crown

An anthology of anecdotes, tall tales, yarns, legends, stories, ballads and folksongs of the Great Plains and Far West, drawn from oral and printed sources and arranged chronologically and geographically

Treasury of Southern Folklore: Deluxe Edition

A collection of more than 500 stories and 100 songs with musical scores that represent a cross-section of American culture

Treasury of American Folklore: Deluxe Edition

BANTAM BOOKS

Collection of personal narratives, anecdotes, tall tales, and fables convey the courage, imagination, and humor of the Civil War era

A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Promontory

1985, hardcover reprint edition, Castle / Book Sales, NY. 321 pages. Here is a very nicely done title, a collection of more than 400 anecdotes, many appearing here for the first time. This is a primer of storytelling and a "... cracker barrel history of America." The author, before his death in 1975, edited more than a dozen folklore collections. Here is a terrific source book, offering brief accounts of cracker barrel philosophy, very cool customers, a few fools, some real whoppers, more than one hero, some bureaucrats, storytellers, and a scattering of bits and pieces from the bar room and barnyard. An absolutely fascinating book to dip into repeatedly.

A Treasury of American Anecdotes

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Castle Books, 1985

A Treasury of American Folklore : The Stories, Legends, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads, and Songs of the American People

Garden City Publishing

Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top “100 Books that Shaped America,” this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author’s time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer’s Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, “So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers…besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders.”

A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People

United States

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