Tall tale America:
by Blair, Walter
Published by : Coward-McCann (New York ) Physical details: ix, 262 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm Year: 1944| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| j398.2 Bal Favorite tales of long ago | j398.2 Bar Latin American tales | j398.2 Ber Why the jackal won't speak to the hedgehog | j398.2 Bla Tall tale America: | j398.2 Bow Pecos Bill | j398.2 Bro Dick Whittington and his cat | j398.2 Bru Dog people: |
Map on pastedowns and endpapers
The stories of American tall tale heroes--Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others.
Overcoming hardships, America gets discovered and settled --
Captain Stormalong, the revolution and clipper ships --
Jonathan Slick, southerners, Dutchmen and Daniel Boone --
Mike Fink, king of Mississippi keelboatmen --
Mike Fink, mountain man in the far west --
Davy Crockett, Tennessee settler --
Davy Crockett, soldier, congressmen and comet licker --
Johnny Appleseed, planter of orchards on the frontier --
Mose, New York fireman and California miner --
Windwagon Smith and the Santa Fe trail --
Feboldson and Bridger; western scientists --
Paul Bunyan, Northwoods lumberman --
Pecos Bill, king of Texas cowboys --
John Henry and the machine in West Virginia --
Paul Bunyan, scientific industrial in the oilfields --
Joe Magarac, Pittsburgh steel men --
"We've still got heroes."
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