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• ISBN: 0870713795
• ISBN: 9780870713798
• ISBN: 0870713809
• ISBN: 9780870713804
• Physical Description: xxv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: Corvallis, Or. : Oregon State University Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The stories we tell. This place is home. Creation of the Klamath Country -- Origin of Black Butte, Medicine Rock, Eagle Rock, and Mt. Jefferson -- Oregon as paradise -- Abraham "Oregon" Smith in the "land of milk and honey" -- Oregon suits me -- Oregon land -- South Wind marries Ocean's daughter -- Origins of "webfoot" -- About the word "Oregon": The mystery of its origin ; "Oregon" in the vernacular ; "Oregon" in the woods ; "Oregon" on horseback -- The girl with the striped stockings -- Alsea girls -- Oregon's healthy climate -- Getting the wash done Oregon style -- Oregon sayings, West and East -- Reub Long on the Oregon desert -- Southeastern Oregon weather -- Valley rabbit and mountain rabbit.

First contacts and other encounters. The first ship comes to Clatsop -- The Nez Perce meet Lewis and Clark -- "Goldilocks on the Oregon Trail": Nellie Jane Earp ; Moses Eads's red-headed daughter ; Mary Walker, a brave pioneer girl -- A sampling of Chinook jargon -- The sun's myth -- Gishgiu's escape -- Gishgiu and the sugar thief -- Indians speculate on white ladies' bustles -- An encounter between miners and Indians -- The origin of horses in Oregon -- Bill McBride's race horse -- The joke was on the Whites in Pendleton -- Histo and the carnation man -- Won Sam's phrase book -- Does anyone speak Finnish here? -- When Basque herders first arrived in the Owyhee region -- Dad's embarrassment -- How Masuo Yasui found Hood River -- Golden America.

Oregon's folk heroes and characters. Chiloquin -- How Fish-Hawk raided the Sioux -- Patrick Dooney and the bear Dooneys: The bear Dooneys ; Pat Dooney beats the Russians -- Neshukulayloo -- The revenge against the sky people -- Black Harris and the putrefied forest -- Hathaway Jones, Rogue River Munchhausen: Hathaway's father builds a fireplace ; Hathaway's own fireplace ; Hathaway's great strength ; Packing a bear home ; Hathaway's marvelous hunt ; Hathaway shoots his old mare ; Shooting geese ; The black powder bullet ; A nimble mule ; Hathaway mixes up his mules -- Benjamin Franklin "Huckleberry" Finn: Finn upholds his reputation as a liar ; Moving Finn rock ; Trapped in a honey tree ; Caught in a stump ; Making turpentine ; Finn and the muzzle loader ; The big fish ; The "Kalarup" gun ; Finn and the game warden -- Tebo Ortego, vaquero munchhausen: Kiger Gorge ; Tebo's mosquito stories ; Tebo's pet fish ; Birds freeze in the lake ; The fast palomino stallion ; The horses have a rodeo ; A night at Buena Vista -- Bill Brown -- Aaron Meier and the darning needle -- Lou Southworth of Waldport -- Jack Dalton pays his bill -- Old Blue -- The ballad of Archie Brown.

Tales of hunting and fishing. A hunter's first kill -- The redwood canoe -- The hunter who had an elk for a guardian spirit -- Coyote and the talking fish trap -- Goose hunting near McMinnville, fishing at Meadow Lake -- The biggest catch -- Boiled owl -- A good hunting day -- The smartest hunting dog -- A city hunter -- The deer hunter -- Portland hunters.

Coyote and other tricksters. Wasco Coyote cycle: Coyote frees the fish ; Coyote and the mouthless man ; The first pregnancy ; Coyote meets Tsagiglalal ; Coyote and Eagle go to the land of the dead -- Coyote the eye-juggler -- South Wind loses his eyes and gets new ones -- Coyote and the strawberries -- Fernando, a Basque trickster: Fernando and the priest's pig ; The priest invites Fernando to dinner ; Fernando and the platter of meat ; Fernando's sister dies.

At work in Oregon. Planting rhymes -- Three scythe songs from pioneer Oregon -- John Alexander -- The big combine -- Dry land farming lexicon -- The Lane County bachelor -- Oregon cowboys and buckaroos: How to get along ; The work week on a ranch ; Grant County cattlemen ; Buckaroo geography ; Harney County strawberries ; John Porter's story about a sheepman on his range -- Cowboy vernacular -- Jesse Stahl's famous ride -- The strawberry roan -- A bear tale -- Mongo -- Corrido del difunto Nabor, ballad of the deceased Nabor -- Why a cowboy left home -- The ballad of Pete Orman -- Loggers' lore and initiation customs: A bucket of choker holes ; The axe man's test ; The Swede and the cant hook -- Walkaway -- A new bride in camp -- Paul Bunyan: Paul Bunyan's logging at Shoreacres ; Paul's great auction ; The sad ending of Paul Bunyan's blue ox -- Bunkhouse cussing -- Selections from the loggers' lexicon -- The Wobbly language -- Fifty thousand lumberjacks -- Ode to the spotted owl -- Miners' nicknames and nomenclature: Hardrock ; Two-Week Tommy, Walk Away Willie, and Seldom-Seen Charley ; Digsblaster ; Digmore ; Cousin Jacks ; Tommy Knockers -- One of Sumpter's well-known miners -- The ghosts of Chinese and Black miners of Elk Creek -- The ballad of the Territorial Road -- Women invade the shipyards -- The naming of fishboats -- Fishermen's folk speech.

Lost treasures. The Neahkanie Mountain treasure: The pirates at Neahkanie ; Buried treasure from a Spanish galleon ; An Indian account ; The treasure ship ; A Portuguese shipwreck -- The lost Blue Bucket Mine -- The treasure at Columbia City -- Gold found and lost near Canyon City -- Jim Polk leads a gold expedition.

Monsters, snakes, fabulous creatures. Coyote and the swallowing monster -- Sea serpent in the Illinois River -- The origin of Face Rock at Bandon -- At'unaqu and the forest fire -- Bigfoots galore: Reports on the sasquatch in the 1860s ; Wild man helps himself to elk meat ; Bigfoot, our contemporary -- The man who lived with Thunder Bird -- The woman who swallowed a snake -- The girl who swallowed a pearl.

Spirits, corpses, haunted places. Lulu'laidi -- The ghosts at Mosquito Flats -- The stick Indians -- Old Man Donovan's wake -- The corpse and the pickles -- Petrified bodies West and East: The petrification of Mrs. Confer ; A petrified girl of Hay Creek ; A stone man at Ashford -- Haunted Skookum Lake -- Amhuluk, the Skookum of the lake -- The creaking mantle -- The rocking cradle -- La Llorona, the crying woman -- El troquero y la joven, The trucker and the young girl.

Family matters. Baby-land -- Babes in the woods -- Joobering -- Counting out rhymes -- A Clackamas girls' game --Klamath string figures -- Old Mr. Fox -- Little Raccoon and his grandmother -- Wild woman ate children -- Bloody fingers -- Golden arm -- The boyfriend's death -- The three murderer sons -- Seal and her younger brother lived there -- The legend of the magpies -- The girl who married a sea otter -- Split-his-own-head -- The two brothers -- The earring story -- The first family.

Husbands, wives, lovers. Ang Toy and Farm Pei -- The honorable Milt -- Niggedy Naggedy -- There was an old woman in Trenton -- "That's how she got him on the train" -- The quarrel at Kirk Canyon -- The clever wife -- Coyote falls in love and creates Crater Lake.

New old stories. Christianity in Chinook jargon: The Lord's prayer in jargon ; Old Man Daniel -- Munata'lkni, or the devil -- White men are snakes -- Laptiss'an and the seven-headed monster -- Coyote and the anthropologist -- A prophecy about Coyote and the people of the lake -- The coyote, the bear, and the moon -- The Sycan barn -- Buckskin.

How it all began. Tututni genesis. Bibliography -- Glossary of folk literature genres -- Index.

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Folklore > Oregon.
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Tales > Oregon.
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Folklore.
Tales.
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