Heroes, outlaws & funny fellows of American popular tales. / Illustrated by Richard Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Olive Beaupré.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legends--America--Juvenile literature.

Legends.

Tales--America.

Tales.

America.

Folklore--United States.

Physical Description:

x, 332 pages : illustrations, color map on lining papers. ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Junior Literary Guild : Doubleday, Doran, 1939.

Contents:

Captain Kidd and his buried treasure : a story of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and New England

Lord Timothy Dexter, First Lord of "Amercay" : a story of Newburyport, Massachusetts

Old Stormalong : a yarn of the Yankee soldiers on the Maine to Massachusetts coast

When witches rode broomsticks : a legend of New England

Dutch adventures in Old New York : yarns and legends of the Dutch retold after Washington Irving

Christmas in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania : a story told by Czech and German settlers from Moravia

Old Johnny Appleseed : a tale of Ohio and Indiana

Mike Fink and the outlaws of Cave-in-Rock : a story told by the boatmen of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

A Twelfth Night prank in Cahokia : a folk tale of the French in Illinois and Missouri

The pirate La Fitte and his ghost : a popular tale of Illinois and Missouri

The bell witch : a folk tale of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi

John Henry's contest with the big steam drill : a story of West Virginia told from the ballads of the railroad builders

The crazy doings of a funny fellow among the Pennsylvania Germans : told from articles written in Pennsylvania German by T.H. Harter

Heroes of the coal mines : told from tales and songs of the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania

John Buck, the big Norwegian sailor : a story of the Green Bay Islands off Wisconsin and Michigan

Big Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe : a tall tale of the forests of Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota as told by loggers in the lumber camps

The Cardiff Giant : a favorite story by old timers in Iowa

The sad story of Febold Feboldson and his enormous load of sand : a popular tale of Nebraska

The traveling courthouse : a yarn of the Kansas county seat wars

Kemp Morgan, the hero of the oil fields : a tale told by the oil drillers of Oklahoma and Texas

Pecos Bill, the cowboy : a tall tale of Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado as told by American cowboys

Don José's sheep : a folk tale from the Spanish of the Mexicans in New Mexico

Finn MacCool, the greatest of civil engineers : a tale of the Grand Canyon of Arizona as told by Irish work gangs and civil engineers

Joaquin, the robber : story of the California Gold Rush

Paul Bunyan goes west : a tall tale of North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington.

OCLC:

166291