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Who Blowed Up the Church House?: and Other Ozark Folk Tales

Vance Randolph

First published 1952
Publisher Columbia University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Glen Rounds
Pages xix+232
Price $3.50

Price from front flap on The Internet Archive.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Who Blowed Up the Church House? uncredited Short Story
6 She Always Answered No uncredited Short Story
7 Slow Train Trough Arkansas uncredited Short Story
10 The Cookstove and the Circus uncredited Short Story
11 The Deputy's Wife uncredited Short Story
13 The Champion uncredited Short Story
14 Snake in the Bed uncredited Short Story
16 The Stranger and the Beans uncredited Short Story
17 Fill, Bowl, Fill! uncredited Short Story
19 How Kate Got a Husband uncredited Short Story
20 The Heron and the Eel uncredited Short Story
22 The Dumb Supper uncredited Short Story
23 The Boy That Fooled His Folks uncredited Short Story
24 Hoot-Owl Jessup uncredited Short Story
25 The Devil in the Graveyard uncredited Short Story
26 How Booger Done His Wife uncredited Short Story
27 The Porter and the Squire uncredited Short Story
29 The Jenkins Boys uncredited Short Story
31 Hogeye and the Black Snake uncredited Short Story
33 The Boot That Killed People uncredited Short Story
35 Thirty Pieces of Silver uncredited Short Story
38 The Tourist That Went Too Far uncredited Short Story
42 Uncle Adam's Cow uncredited Short Story
43 Deacon Spurlock and the Legislature uncredited Short Story
45 Gravels for a Goose uncredited Short Story
46 The Great Badger Fight uncredited Short Story
48 The Big Old Giant uncredited Short Story
50 No Respect for the Dead uncredited Short Story
52 Little Ab and the Scalding-Barrel uncredited Short Story
53 Pennywinkle! Pennywinkle! uncredited Short Story
54 Jay Caught the Devil uncredited Short Story
56 Talking River uncredited Short Story
59 The Little Blue Ball uncredited Short Story
60 Jack Couldn't Make No Change uncredited Short Story
62 The Woman and the Robber uncredited Short Story
64 Them Newcomers Ruined the Meat uncredited Short Story
65 The Banjo-Picking Girl uncredited Short Story
67 Little Weed Marshall uncredited Short Story
70 The Vinegar Jug uncredited Short Story
72 Uncle Johnny's Bear uncredited Short Story
73 The Newfangled Capsules uncredited Short Story
75 High Water at Turkey Ford uncredited Short Story
77 The Abolition of Scott County uncredited Short Story
79 Hunting the Old Iron uncredited Short Story
80 The Deaf Man's Answers uncredited Short Story
81 A Pallet on the Floor uncredited Short Story
82 The Rail Splitter uncredited Short Story
83 Dividing Up the Dead uncredited Short Story
84 Three Little Pigs uncredited Short Story
86 The Pin in the Gatepost uncredited Short Story
87 The Little Boy and the Snake uncredited Short Story
89 Belle Starr and Jim Reed uncredited Short Story
91 The Man from Hockey Mountain uncredited Short Story
93 Shirttail Boys uncredited Short Story
94 The Wool on Pappy's Filly uncredited Short Story
95 The Fellow That Stole Corn uncredited Short Story
97 Jasper Acted Kind of Foolish uncredited Short Story
99 The Poppet Caught a Thief uncredited Short Story
101 The Queen's White Glove uncredited Short Story
103 Strawberries Are Easy Witched uncredited Short Story
105 Naked ABove the Waist uncredited Short Story
108 The Stupid Schoolmaster uncredited Short Story
111 Johnny Appleseed uncredited Short Story
113 The Singing Teacher and the Bear uncredited Short Story
115 Geometry Is What Done It uncredited Short Story
118 The Brown Mare uncredited Short Story
119 She Wouldn't Be a Witch uncredited Short Story
121 The Heirloom uncredited Short Story
122 How the Still Got Busted uncredited Short Story
123 The Little Man and the Granny Woman uncredited Short Story
124 The Horseless Carriage uncredited Short Story
126 Oolah! Oolah! uncredited Short Story
127 The Footloose Family uncredited Short Story
130 Shoes for the King uncredited Short Story
133 Jack and the Little Bull uncredited Short Story
135 A Coonbone for Luck uncredited Short Story
137 The End of the Benders uncredited Short Story
139 The Three Wishes uncredited Short Story
140 Two Seeds in the Spirit uncredited Short Story
143 Under Gravel I Do Travel uncredited Short Story
144 The Mare's Nest uncredited Short Story
145 A Notch Marks the Spot uncredited Short Story
146 He Throwed Down His Gun uncredited Short Story
148 Jack and Old Tush uncredited Short Story
150 The Fiddler's Wife uncredited Short Story
152 Rick Tyler and the Lawyer uncredited Short Story
153 How Betsy Got Drowned uncredited Short Story
155 Scratches on the Bedstead uncredited Short Story
158 The Pea-Green Jug uncredited Short Story
160 Confederates in the News uncredited Short Story
163 Three Black Cats uncredited Short Story
164 The Women Sucked His Blood uncredited Short Story
166 How Jack Got His Big Farm uncredited Short Story
168 Hiram Ain't Here No More uncredited Short Story
169 The Sheriff and the Gallows uncredited Short Story
171 Si Burton's Little Black Dog uncredited Short Story
173 White-Bear Whittington uncredited Short Story
175 The Mare with the False Tail uncredited Short Story
179 Comments of a Folklorist Herbert Halpert Essay
183 Notes (Who Blowed Up the Church House?: and Other Ozark Folk Tales) Vance Randolph & Herbert Halpert Essay
40|40.1 Old Kitty Rollins uncredited Short Story
40|40.2 The Snipe Hunters uncredited Short Story
xv Introduction (Who Blowed Up the Church House?: and Other Ozark Folk Tales) Vance Randolph Essay