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• Physical Description: 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: Palo Alto, Calif. : American West Pub. Co., [1969]

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Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Following the lore of the folk -- II. The good old days: Memories of a Morman girlhood / Juanita Brooks -- A Norwegian dialogue on the new world / Einar Haugen -- In the Texas big bend / Haldeen Braddy -- Winter evenings in Iowa / Catherine Ann McCollum -- A new Mexican village / Helen Zunser -- III. The Indian at home: What befell the slave seekers / James Deans -- Ichthyophobia / Washington Matthews -- How the Indians taught kindness / Jesse E. Baker -- The sun and the moon-a Blackfoot myth / George Bird Grinnell -- The origin of the Pleiades / Alfred L. Kroeber -- The legend of the Indian corn / Mrs. W. Wallace Brown -- Some Shamans of Northern California / Roland B. Dixon -- The Omaha buffalo medicine men / Francis La Fleshce -- Glimpses of child life among the Omaha tribe of Indians / Alice C. Fletcher -- A Sioux hoop game / J.R. Walker -- IV. The Indian and the White man: Memorials of the Indian / J.W. Hudson -- The first White men / Mary L. Neff -- A Dakota reading of the creation / from "Dakota legend" -- The tale of Cinder-Mary / J. Alden Mason -- The unfortunate turkey girl / Elsie Clews Parsons -- A Shoshone tar baby / Robert H. Lowie -- The prophecy of Montezuma / Clara Kern Bayliss -- Report of an Indian visit to Jack Wilson, Payute Messiah / Albert S. Gatschet -- Account of the northern Cheyennes concerning the Messiah / William Wells Newell -- The ghost dance reaches the outside world / from Journal of American folklore -- Peyote jokes / James H. Howard -- An epilogue and a prophecy / Frank Hamilton Cushing -- And a judgment / Isabel T. Kelly -- V. Cowboy songs: A Montana cowboy poet / John I. White -- The Bee County Iliad / W. Prescott Webb -- El cancion del Rancho de Los Olmos / J. Frank Dobie -- The decline and fall of the cowboy ballad / John A. Lomax -- VI. Songs of the old country, songs of the new: a Missouri dance call / Ruth Ann Musick -- The singing Kentucks move west / Asher E. Treat -- Jimmie Rodgers, a folksong catalyst / John Greenway.

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie / John Greenway -- VIII. The days of gold and the days of dross: Folklore from Utah's silver mining camps / Wayland D. Hand -- John Neuhaus: Wobbly folklorist / Archie Green -- Bad men and big: Robin Hood and the American outlaw / Kent L. Steckmesser -- Paul Bunyan in 1910 / W.W. Charters -- W.B. Laughead's great advertisement / Max Gartenberg -- More light on Paul Bunyan / Rodney C. Loehr -- IX. Whippers and witches and heavenly helpers: Cactus whips and wooden crosses / Juan Hernandez -- Penitentes in a new Mexican village / Helen Zunser -- The ghost of a penitente / Aurelio M. Espinoza -- Witches in the Ozarks / Vance Randolph -- The witches of New Mexico / from "Witchcraft in New Mexico" -- A Yaqui widow becomes a witch / V. Granville -- Jesucristo and the rich man / Barbara Freire Marreco -- Two tales of the three nephites / Austin E. Fife -- Tracking down a Texas poltergeist / Kenneth W. Porter and O.G. Lawson -- A miracle in the graveyard / Charles Neely -- Having fun: The play party in Idaho / Leona Nessly Ball -- Songs of the play party / Mrs. L.D. Ames -- Folktales from Arkanzas / Vance Randolph -- Naked in the Ozarks / Vance Randolph.

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