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The Devil's Pretty Daughter, and Other Ozark Folk Tales

Vance Randolph

First published 1955
Publisher Columbia University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Glen Rounds
Pages xvi+239
Price $3.75

Both Preface and Introduction are signed as by V. R.; Notes as by H. H. or V. R., depending on the story.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Devil's Pretty Daughter uncredited Short Story
6 What Candy Ashcraft Done uncredited Short Story
9 A Slim Yellow Catfish uncredited Short Story
11 Old Wall-Eyes uncredited Short Story
14 The Cuckoo's Nest uncredited Short Story
15 Aunt Kate's Goomer-Dust uncredited Short Story
19 The Baby in the Cradle uncredited Short Story
20 Setting Down the Budget uncredited Short Story
22 The Soot on Somebody's Back uncredited Short Story
24 Grave Robbers uncredited Short Story
25 Round the Campfire uncredited Short Story
26 Yellow Bread uncredited Short Story
28 False Faces in Missouri uncredited Short Story
30 The Peddler Wanted Fish uncredited Short Story
31 Spanish Gold uncredited Short Story
34 Bessie and the Eggs uncredited Short Story
36 Horn Eats Horn uncredited Short Story
37 A Hunter Calls His Shots uncredited Short Story
39 Andy Coggburn's Song uncredited Short Story
42 The Dumb-Bull uncredited Short Story
44 Gunpowder in the Stove uncredited Short Story
47 Slipping Through the Keyhole uncredited Short Story
49 There's Bigger Fools Than Tildy uncredited Short Story
51 On Breadtray Mountain uncredited Short Story
53 Little Thumb and the Giant uncredited Short Story
55 Bang Away, My Lulu! uncredited Short Story
58 The Marshal in the Barrel uncredited Short Story
60 One Thing They Can't Sell uncredited Short Story
61 Heading for Texas uncredited Short Story
63 How Toodie Fixed Old Grunt uncredited Short Story
65 The Infidel's Grave uncredited Short Story
67 Jack and the Sack uncredited Short Story
69 The Woman in the Bed uncredited Short Story
70 A Tall Fellow's Turkey uncredited Short Story
72 Some Other Small Gut uncredited Short Story
73 Big Knives in Arkansas uncredited Short Story
75 Locusts Got the Corn uncredited Short Story
76 The Time the Red Men Rode uncredited Short Story
78 Job Was Pretty Stingy uncredited Short Story
79 A Pretty Girl in the Road uncredited Short Story
82 Groundhog Charley uncredited Short Story
83 The King's Daughter Laughed uncredited Short Story
85 Boots on the Wire uncredited Short Story
87 The Magic Horn uncredited Short Story
89 There Was an Old Woman uncredited Short Story
91 The Toadfrog uncredited Short Story
92 Old Black-Oak Knows Best uncredited Short Story
94 The Good Girl and the Ornery Girl uncredited Short Story
95 Mister Fox uncredited Short Story
97 The Bull Was Found Guilty uncredited Short Story
99 When Lizzie Picked the Greens uncredited Short Story
101 The Boy and the Turkeys uncredited Short Story
102 Arithmetic on Bear Creek uncredited Short Story
103 Grind the Coffee uncredited Short Story
105 The Magic Cowhide uncredited Short Story
107 Stiff As a Poker uncredited Short Story
109 Casting Out the Devil uncredited Short Story
111 The Burying of Old Man Kane uncredited Short Story
112 Stuck in a Holler Log uncredited Short Story
114 The Arkansas Traveler uncredited Short Story
117 She Turned Him into a Pony uncredited Short Story
118 Colonel Dockett uncredited Short Story
120 The Woman-Hater's Son uncredited Short Story
123 Gunpowder Seed uncredited Short Story
124 Willie Up the Chimney uncredited Short Story
126 His Voice Was A-Changing uncredited Short Story
127 Too Much Powder uncredited Short Story
128 A Long-Handled Shovel uncredited Short Story
130 The Green Man in the Tree uncredited Short Story
132 Cornbread and Bacon uncredited Short Story
133 Second Sight uncredited Short Story
136 The Fancy Pot uncredited Short Story
137 Alf Bolen's Head uncredited Short Story
139 The Girl and the Road Agent uncredited Short Story
141 Played for a Sucker uncredited Short Story
143 The Cowpokes Told a Tale uncredited Short Story
145 The Three Dreams uncredited Short Story
146 Corn for the Miller uncredited Short Story
148 The Drummer's Magic Circle uncredited Short Story
150 Good Dogs Cost Money uncredited Short Story
151 Three Barrels of Whiskey uncredited Short Story
153 The Blacksmith's Story uncredited Short Story
154 Mister Sharp and the Old Soldier uncredited Short Story
156 The Boy That Made Up Songs uncredited Short Story
158 It Sure Won't Do No Harm uncredited Short Story
159 Rena Killed a Stranger uncredited Short Story
161 Devil Take the Skillet uncredited Short Story
163 The Hog-Bristle Trial uncredited Short Story
164 Too Much Church Work uncredited Short Story
166 The Stolen Wedges uncredited Short Story
167 Babes in the Woods uncredited Short Story
169 Notes (The Devil's Pretty Daughter, and Other Ozark Folk Tales) Herbert Halpert & Vance Randolph Essay
xiii Introduction (The Devil's Pretty Daughter, and Other Ozark Folk Tales) Vance Randolph Essay
[vii] Preface (The Devil's Pretty Daughter, and Other Ozark Folk Tales) Vance Randolph Essay