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The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales / Vance Randolph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randolph, Vance, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1957]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Presents many Ozark folk tales shaped and polished by their oral tradition of storytelling documented over years in cabins, stores, campfires, and dances.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Talking Turtle
- Blood in the Cellar
- The Curse of Monegaw
- The Foreigner's Head
- Big Wind at Hurley
- The Well Digger
- Loosening Weeds
- The Wicked Stepmother
- Blind Date on Bull Creek
- The Hollering Story
- It Just Suits Me
- The Big Black Booger
- Big Fraid and Little Fraid
- The Wise Man's Questions
- Fiddler's Cave
- The Holy Rollers
- A Little More Cider
- The Spanish Burial
- To Hell with Joplin
- We Call It Lapland
- The Magic Window
- She's Got One Spoiled Tit
- The Yank Reunion
- Old Man Price's Boar
- The Two White Springs
- They All Started from Scratch
- Pinkley Was a Fool
- Women Run with the Wolves
- The Silent Rifle
- Jack and the Gower
- He Wasn't My Son-in-Law
- The Ghost Was Still Mad
- God Damn the Wind
- The Looking Glass
- Harvey and Myra
- Four Aces Ain't Good
- Tobey the Kingsnake
- Hell Among the Chickens
- Gabe Says It Ain't So Bad
- The Booger Dog
- An Innocent Man
- Good Country Buttermilk
- What They Told on Jasper
- Paw Won't Like This
- The Lazy Fanner
- A Private Room
- Brains for a Tanner
- They Moved the Graveyard
- Yocum Used his Head
- A Pickard Never Forgets
- The Chili King
- Turtles Grow Fast
- The Bolster
- Ida Street's Byword
- Tom and Jerry
- Wild Pigeons
- Sam Fenton Was Tempted
- Plumbing in Oklahoma
- Three Silver Legs
- Can Rats Read?
- The Paper Salesman
- He Talked Kind of Slow
- Them Drunken Painters
- The Son of a Bishop
- The Man That Hated Bats
- Gold Is Where You Find It
- Cruelty to Animals
- You Ain't Coming Back
- They Prayed to the Sun
- The Crow That Talked
- Jack and the Old Witch
- The Death of Little Jemson
- Signs of the Times
- Ice in the Beer
- Teddy Ketchum
- The Bloody Miller
- The Sheriff Give Him Rope
- Dunwoody's Last Joke
- Riding on the Cars
- The Belled Buzzard
- A Little Piece of Thread
- The Big Rabbits
- How to Get Rid of Doctors
- The Preacher Wouldn't Eat
- Three Foot Deeper
- The Necessities of Life
- Riddle Me This
- The Man from Texas
- A Barrel of Popcorn
- Change the Name of Arkansas?
- Johnny's Little Dog
- There's a Sleight to It
- On Trial for His Life
- Wolves Are My Brothers
- Old Horny
- She Wanted a Divorce
- Backhouse Albert's Money
- The Cat's Foot
- Little Toody
- Adam and Eve
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-89771-5
- OCLC:
- 1100449452
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