A treasury of North American folk-tales
By: compiled and annotated by Catherine Peck ; introduction by Charles Johnson
Edition: Book-of-the-month club ed.
Publisher: Book-of-the-month club
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Notes: "Originally published under the title QPB treasury of North American folktales"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Charles Johnson -- 1.; title: How the World was Made.; title: The Boy of the Red Sky.; title: What Makes Brer Wasp Have a Short Patience.; title: Opossum Steals Fire.; title: Light.; title: Ojeeg, The Summer Maker.; title: Powerful Changed.; title: The Star Husband.; title: The Dog-Rib Legend of Ithenhiela.; title: Man, the Burro, and the Dog.; title: Possum, Turtle, and the Wolves.; title: Getting Common Sense.; title: Ouiot and Frog -- -- 2.; title: Tall Tales, Brags, and other Lies.; title: How to Tell a Story.; title: Ab Yancey's Squirrel-Hunt.; title: Tall Hunting Tale.; title: The Dog Who Could Walk on Water.; title: Old Gawge and the Ninety and Nine.; title: Uncle Swain.; title: The Trained Trout.; title: A Trip to the Moon.; title: The Snake-Bit Hoe Handle.; title: Uncle Billy Hallock's Yarn.; title: I Wish I Could Tell a Lie.; title: Remarks Made at the Hatchet Club.; title: Frontier Brags.; title: California -- -- 3.; title: Legendary Heroes and Heroines.; title: Annie Oakley Makes Her Name.; title: Davy Crockett.; title: The Colonel Swallows a Thunderbolt.; title: David Crockett Meets a Bear.; title: Mike Fink Meets David Crockett.; title: The Ballad of Casey Jones.; title: Johnny Applessed.; title: The Cherry Tree Legend.; title: Belle Starr.; title: Judge Roy Bean's Necktie Justice.; title: Wild Bill Hickock's Duel with Dave Tutt.; title: Stackalee -- -- 4.; title: Larger than Life.; title: The Birth of Paul Bunyan.; title: Babe the Blue Ox.; title: Pipeline Days.; title: Paul's Popcorn.; title: Paul Bunyan Takes Care of Mosquitoes.; title: Cal Bunyan's Ireland, Jerusalem, Australia & Southern Indiana Railroad.; title: The Birth of John Henry.; title: The Ballad of John Henry.; title: Annie Christmas.; title: The Saga of Pecos Bill -- -- 5.; title: Life Lessons.; title: Looking for Trouble.; title: The Bird That Was Ashamed of Its Feet.; title: A Boy and His Donkey.; title: Brer Possum's Dilemma.; title: The Red Rag Under the Churn.; title: The Two Wagoners.; title: Annancy and the Yam Hills.; title: Words of Wisdom.; title: The Golden Rain.; title: Why Men Have to Work.; title: A Bundle of Troubles.; title: The Robe -- -- 6.; title: Tricks and Tricksters.; title: Brother Rabbit Breaks Up a Party.; title: Tio Conejo and the Hurricane.; title: Coyote Tricks the White Man.; title: Big John the Conqueror.; title: Jack and the Giants' New Ground.; title: The Boy That Was Foolish-Wise.; title: The Arkansas Traveler.; title: The Yankee Peddler.; title: How Pedro Urdemalas Got Into and Out of Heaven.; title: Bobtail and the Devil -- -- 7.; title: The Fool.; title: The Three Sillies.; title: Two Tales of Foolish John.; title: Fido est mort (Fido Is Dead).; title: The Devil and the Lord Dividing Souls.; title: Pat and the Devil.; title: The Riddle Test.; title: Jean Sotte and the Riddle.; title: Jean Sot and Bull's Milk.; title: The Mule Egg.; title: The $50,000 Racehorse.; title: Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn.; title: The Killer Mosquitoes.; title: The Yankee Peddler and the Innkeeper -- -- 8.; title: Love Stories.; title: The Girl That Married a Flop-Eared Hound-Dog.; title: The Algonquin Cinderella.; title: La Cenicienta Huasteca.; title: Fabiano and Reyes.; title: A Bunch of Laurel Blooms for a Present.; title: The Toadfrog.; title: Old Black-Oak Knows Best.; title: Hard of Hearing.; title: Farmer Smith and Ma'am Jones.; title: Strawberries.; title: Lovers' Retreat.; title: Poke-o'-Moonshine.; title: A Tale of Love -- -- 9.; title: Of Ghosts, Witches, and the Devil.; title: The Haunted House.; title: Marie Jolie.; title: Sammy and His Fiddle.; title: Tom Dunn's Dance on Rag Rock.; title: Whickety-Whack, Into My Sack.; title: The Grouse Girl.; title: Aunt Tucky.; title: The Yellow Ribbon.; title: The Ghost of Jean Lafitte.; title: The Weeping Woman.; title: La Llorona Teaches a Hippie a Lesson.; title: A Pretty Girl in the Road.; title: The Spectre Bride.