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A Treasury of North American Folktales

Catherine Peck

First published 1999
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Marty Blake
Pages xx+380
Price $29.95
ISBN 0393047415

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 How the World Was Made Catherine Peck Essay
3 The Boy of the Big Red Sky Cyrus Macmillan Short Story
7 What Makes Brer Wasp Have a Short Patience Samuel Gaillard Stoney & Gertrude Mathews Shelby Short Story
10 Opossum Steals Fire John Bierhorst Short Story
12 Light F. A. Golder Short Story
16 Ojeeg, The Summer Maker Katherine B. Judson Short Story
20 Powerful Changed Zora Neale Hurston Short Fiction
24 The Star Husband Lynn Moroney Short Story
29 The Dog-Rib Legend of Ithenhiela James Mackintosh Bell Short Story
35 Man, the Burro, and the Dog Juan B. Rael & José Griego y Maestas & Rudolfo A. Anaya Short Story
37 Possum, Turtle, and the Wolves Doug Elliott Short Fiction
44 Getting Common Sense Louise Bennett Short Story
45 Ouiot and Frog Constance Goddard Du Bois Short Story
49 Tall Tales, Brags and Other Lies Catherine Peck Essay
51 How to Tell a Story Mark Twain Short Story
55 Ab Yancey's Squirrel-Hunt Vance Randolph Short Fiction
57 Tall Hunting Tale Leonard W. Roberts Short Story
59 The Dog Who Could Walk on Water Barry Jean Ancelet Short Story
61 Old Gawge and the Ninety and Nine Walter H. Martin Short Story
64 Uncle Swain Catherine Peck Short Fiction
67 The Trained Trout Francis I. Maule Short Story
70 A Trip to the Moon John A. Burrison Short Story
72 The Snake-Bit Hoe Handle Doc McConnell Short Story
75 Uncle Billy Hallock's Yarn Anonymous Short Story
77 I Wish I Could Tell a Lie Anonymous Poem
80 Remarks Made at the Hatchet Club uncredited Short Fiction
82 Billy Earthquake Anonymous Short Fiction
83 The Purple Blossom of Gingham Mountain Alfred Henry Lewis Short Fiction
85 California Edwin Bryant Short Fiction
87 Legendary Heroes and Heroines Catherine Peck Essay
89 Annie Oakley Makes Her Name Tristram Potter Coffin Short Fiction
92 Grinning the Bark Off a Tree Matthew St. Clair Clarke Short Fiction
94 The Colonel Swallows a Thunderbolt Anonymous Short Fiction
95 David Crockett Meets a Bear David Crockett Essay
99 Mike Fink Meets David Crockett Anonymous Short Fiction
101 The Ballad of Casey Jones unknown Poem
103 Johnny Appleseed (abridged) Rosella Rice Essay
107 A Folktale of Johnny Appleseed (excerpt) Iantha Castlio Short Fiction
110 The Cherry Tree Legend M. L. Weems Essay
113 Belle's Arrest uncredited Essay
114 Belle Starr's Horse Race (abridged) Phillip W. Steele Short Fiction
116 Judge Roy Bean's Necktie Justice Ruel McDaniel Short Fiction
119 Wild Bill Hickock's Duel with Dave Tutt George Ward Nichols Essay
124 The Legend of Stackalee Maria Leach Short Story
126 The Ballad of Stackalee Onah L. Spencer Poem
131 Larger Than Life Catherine Peck Essay
133 The Birth of Paul Bunyan Esther Shephard Short Fiction
135 Babe the Blue Ox Dell J. McCormick Short Story
138 Pipeline Days Acel Garland Short Fiction
141 Paul's Popcorn Walter Blair Short Fiction
144 Paul Bunyan Takes Care of Mosquitoes Earl Clifton Beck Short Fiction
145 Cal Bunyan's Ireland, Jerusalem, Australia & Southern Indiana Railroad Budd L. McKillips Short Fiction
149 The Birth of John Henry Roark Bradford Short Story
151 The Ballad of John Henry (abridged) John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax Poem
155 Annie Christmas Catherine Peck Short Story
159 The Saga of Pecos Bill (abridged) Edward O'Reilly Short Story
167 Life Lessons Catherine Peck Essay
169 Looking for Trouble Priscilla Jaquith Short Story
172 The Bird That Was Ashamed of Its Feet Gayle Ross Short Story
175 A Boy and His Donkey Rudolfo A. Anaya & José Griego y Maestas & Juan B. Rael Short Story
178 Brer Possum's Dilemma Jackie Torrence Short Story
182 The Red Rag Under the Churn Alice Childs Short Story
185 The Two Wagoners Rudolfo A. Anaya & José Griego y Maestas & Juan B. Rael Short Story
187 Annancy and the Yam Hills (abridged) Pamela Colman Smith Short Story
189 Words of Wisdom Rudolfo A. Anaya & José Griego y Maestas & Juan B. Rael Short Story
192 The Golden Rain Marie Campbell Short Story
195 Why Men Have to Work Julius Lester Short Story
196 A Bundle of Troubles W. C. Hendricks Short Story
200 The Robe Robert Gonzales (I) Short Story
203 Tricks and Tricksters Catherine Peck Essay
205 Brother Rabbit Breaks Up a Party (abridged) Joel Chandler Harris Short Story
210 Tío Conejo and the Hurricane (abridged) Mary Ann Brewer Short Story
213 Coyote Tricks the White Man J. Gilbert McAllister Short Story
215 Big John the Conqueror Stetson Kennedy Short Story
219 Jack in the Giants' New Ground Duncan Emrich Short Story
235 The Boy Who Was Foolish-Wise Marie Campbell Short Story
238 The Arkansas Traveler Kemp P. Battle Short Story
242 The Yankee Finishes His Meal Kemp P. Battle Short Story
244 Razor-Strop Trade unknown Short Story
246 How Pedro Urdemalas Got Into and Out of Heaven Frank Goodwyn Short Story
251 Bobtail and the Devil Leonard W. Roberts Short Story
253 The Fool Catherine Peck Essay
255 The Three Sillies Lee Drake Short Story
259 The Dollars and the Frogs Marie Thériot & Marie Lahaye Short Story
260 Foolish John and the Rain Calvin Claudel Short Story
262 Fido est mort (Fido is Dead) Barry Jean Ancelet Short Story
264 The Devil and the Lord Dividing Souls Lee Drake Short Story
266 Pat and the Devil F. W. Waugh Short Story
267 The Riddle Test Arthur Huff Fauset Short Story
268 Jean Sotte and the Riddle Alcee Fortier Short Story
273 Jean Sot and Bull's Milk J. J. Reneaux Short Story
276 The Mule Egg Doc McConnell Short Story
279 The $50,000 Racehorse Hannah McConnell Gillenwater Short Story
282 Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn Mark Twain Short Story
287 The Killer Mosquitoes J. J. Reneaux Short Story
290 The Yankee Peddler and the Innkeeper Anonymous Short Fiction
293 Love Stories Catherine Peck Essay
295 The Girl That Married a Flop-Eared Hound-Dog Marie Campbell Short Story
299 The Algonquin Cinderella Idries Shah Short Story
302 La Cenicienta Huasteca Riley Aiken Short Story
305 Fabiano and Reyes José Griego y Maestas & Juan B. Rael & Rudolfo Anaya Short Story
311 A Bunch of Laurel Blooms for a Present Marie Campbell Short Story
314 The Toadfrog Vance Randolph Short Story
315 Old Black-Oak Knows Best Vance Randolph Short Story
317 Hard of Hearing unknown Short Story
319 Farmer Smith and Ma'am Jones H. Hastings Weld Short Story
321 Strawberries Gayle Ross Short Story
323 Lovers' Retreat J. S. Spratt Short Story
326 Poke-o'-Moonshine Charles M. Skinner Short Story
328 A Tale of Love Anthony John Campos Short Story
331 Of Ghosts, Witches, and the Devil Catherine Peck Essay
333 The Haunted House Richard Chase Short Story
336 Marie Jolie J. J. Reneaux Short Story
342 Sammy and His Fiddle William H. McMahon Short Story
345 Tom Dunn's Dance on Rag Rock Charles M. Skinner Short Story
347 Whickety-Whack, Into My Sack Ray Hicks Short Story
352 The Grouse Girl F. A. Golder Short Story
355 Aunt Tucky Harriet Culbertson Lewis Short Story
361 The Yellow Ribbon Maria Leach Short Story
363 The Ghost of Jean Lafitte J. J. Reneaux Short Story
365 The Weeping Woman (excerpt) John O. West Essay
368 La Llorona Teaches a Hippie a Lesson Refugio Archuleta Short Story
371 A Pretty Girl in the Road Vance Randolph Short Story
373 The Spectre Bride Charles M. Skinner Short Story
xiii Introduction: On the Nature of Tales Charles Johnson Essay
xix Preface (A Treasury of North American Folktales) Catherine Peck Essay