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Legends and tales of the American West
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Top Floor
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Junior Folktale - North Wing Main Floor
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Erdoes, Richard Author
ISBN
9780375702662
9780307801616
9780307801616
Table of Contents
From the Book
The devil and Major Stobo
The cheater cheated
The wild hunt
Dreams
The skeleton hand
The wild hunter of the Juniata
The consequences of not letting a man have his drink
The laughing head
Tarzan Boone
Swallowing a scalping knife
That's John's gun!
A clever runner
A damn good jump
The warrior woman
The corcondyle head
The irrepressible backwoodsman and original humorist
Grinning the bark off a tree
Davy Crockett on the stump
The drinks are on me, gentlemen
Gouging the critter
Jim Bowie and his big knife
Won't you light, stranger?
Ohio poem
A shooting match
Did such a helliferocious man ever live?
Like father, like daughter
She fought her weight in she-b'ars
He crowed and flapped his wings
A fight between keelboatmen averted
Stranger, is this a free fight?
The screaming head
Stopping drinking for good
Little big man
Kit Carson and the Grizzlies
Run for your life, white man!
Old Solitaire
Pegleg Smith and Headless Harry
Mind the time we took Pawnee topknots?
Lover boy of the prairies
Putrefactions
The injin killed me dead
Heaven according to Old Gabe
Damn good shootin'
Uncle Joe the humorist
Ba-tiste's nightmare
Song of the voyageur
Paul Bunyan and his little blue ox
Paul Bunyan helps to build a railroad
Kidnapped by a flea
Thunder Bay
Tommy-knockers
It had a light where its heart ought to have been
He ate all the democrats of Hinsdale County
A golden-haired fellow
Treasures of various kinds
The missing chest
The saga of Pecos Bill
The taming of Pecos Bill's gal Sue
Coyote makes a Texas cowboy
The heart-shaped mark
The skeleton bride
Western Jack and the cornstalk
Better move that drat thing!
Being afoot in Roswell
Outstunk the skunk
No-head Joaquin and Three-Fingered Jack
The headless horseman of the mother lode
El keed
El chivato
He rose from the grave
A whale of a fellow with a gun
The king of the pistoleers
A western duel
The nuptials of Dangerous Davis
Killing off the James boys
Theme and variations
The Winchester ghosts
A hard head
Indians can play poker
Jim Bowie takes a hand
The curly-headed little boy
Shall we have a drop?
Colonel Tubbs strikes it rich
Good for our entire assets
The one-eyed gambler
Born before her time
How old Calam got her name
Calamity Jane meets a long-lost lover
Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick and the grizzly
Deadwood Dick to the rescue
The law west of the Pecos
Ah Ling's hommyside
Fining the deceased
The hanging of Carlos Robles
Roy Bean's pet bear
Judge Barker, Old Zim, and the one-eyed mule
El cuatro de Julio
A drink's worth of punishment
Preachin' one can understand
The parable of the prodigal son
Lissen to the heavenly poker player!
Hear what the great herd book says!
A funeral oration
A Black Hills sermon
The valley of headless men
A loup-garou, or a windigo, or maybe a carcajou
The call of the wild
The windigo
The great white stallion of the West
Until judgment day
El diablo negro
Snake yarns
A rolling snake gathers no moss
The white snakes
A pair of fine boots
The young man who wanted to be snakebit
The peg-leg cat
Somebody in my bed
The weather
It gets mighty cold around here
Texican liars
The three lost daughters
The two witches
The owl witch
San Isidro and the angel
A riddle
The many-times-killed young man
The caveman of the Hermit Peaks
The miracles of Chimayo
The miraculous staircase
The hitchhiker.
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