Legends and Tales of the American West: The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Autor Richard Erdoesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2000
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780375702662
ISBN-10: 0375702660
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 159 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: KUPERARD (BRAVO LTD)
Seria The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
ISBN-10: 0375702660
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 159 x 234 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: KUPERARD (BRAVO LTD)
Seria The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Notă biografică
Cuprins
It Ain’t Necessarily So / xiii
Foreword / xv
Chapter 1 — Ohio Fever / 3
The Devil and Major Stobo / 5
The Cheater Cheated / 9
The Wild Hunt / 12
Dreams / 14
The Skeleton Hand / 15
The Wild Hunter of the Juniata / 23
The Consequences of Not Letting a Man Have His Drink / 28
The Laughing Head / 31
Chapter 2 — The Long Hunters / 35
Tarzan Boone / 37
Swallowing a Scalping Knife / 42
That’s John’s Gun! / 43
A Clever Runner / 44
A Damn Good Jump / 45
The Warrior Woman / 49
The Corcondyle Head / 51
Chapter 3 — Backwoodsmen / 55
The Irrepressible Backwoodsman and Original Humorist / 57
Grinning the Bark Off a Tree / 60
Davy Crockett on the Stump / 61
The Drinks Are on Me, Gentlemen / 61
Gouging the Critter / 62
Jim Bowie and His Big Knife / 63
Won’t You Light, Stranger? / 69
Ohio Poem / 70
Chapter 4 — Ring-Tailed Roarers of the Western Waters / 71
A Shooting Match / 75
Did Such a Helliferocious Man Ever Live? / 77
Like Father, Like Daughter / 80
She Fought Her Weigh in She-B’ars / 81
He Crowed and Flapped His Wings / 83
A Fight Between Keelboatmen Averted / 84
Stranger, Is This a Free Fight? / 85
The Screaming Head / 85
Stopping Drinking for Good / 89
Chapter 5 — Mountain Men / 91
Little Big Man / 95
Kit Carson and the Grizzlies / 100
Run for Your Life, White Man! / 103
Old Solitaire / 109
Pegleg Smith and Headless Harry / 121
Mind the Time We Took Pawnee Topknots? / 127
Lover Boy of the Prairies / 128
Putrefactions / 135
The Injin Killed Me Dead / 137
Heaven According to Old Gabe / 139
Damn Good Shootin’ / 141
Uncle Joe the Humorist / 146
Ba’tiste’s Nightmare / 147
Song of the Voyageur / 150
Chapter 6 — Timber! / 151
Paul Bunyan and His Little Blue Ox / 153
Paul Bunyan Helps to Build a Railroad / 157
Kidnapped by a Flea / 162
Thunder Bay / 167
Chapter 7 — Gold! Gold! Gold! / 171
Tommy-Knockers / 173
It Had a Light Where Its Heart Ought to Have Been / 177
He Ate All the Democrats of Hinsdale County / 180
A Golden-Haired Fellow / 184
Treasures of Various Kinds / 185
The Missing Chest / 190
Chapter 8 — Git Along Little Dogies / 195
The Saga of Pecos Bill / 197
The Taming of Pecos Bill’s Gal Sue / 203
Coyote Makes a Texas Cowboy / 209
The Heart-Shaped Mark / 212
The Skeleton Bride / 215
Western Jack and the Cornstalk / 217
Better Move That Drat Thing! / 219
Being Afoot in Roswell / 220
Outstunk the Skunk / 220
Chapter 9 — They Died with Their Boots On / 221
No-Head Joaquín and Three-Fingered Jack / 225
The Headless Horseman of the Mother Lode / 232
El Keed / 235
El Chivato / 241
He Rose from the Grave / 244
A Whale of a Fellow with a Gun / 248
The King of the Pistoleers / 255
A Western Duel / 263
The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis / 264
Killing Off the James Boys / 266
Theme and Variations / 267
The Winchester Ghosts / 272
Chapter 10 — Bucking the Tiger / 277
A Hard Head / 279
Indians Can Play Poker / 281
Jim Bowie Takes a Hand / 282
The Curly-Headed Little Boy / 284
Shall We Have a Drop? / 287
Colonel Tubbs Strikes It Rich / 289
Good for Our Entire Assets / 294
The One-Eyed Gambler / 295
Chapter 11 — Lady Wildcats of the Plains / 297
Born Before Her Time / 299
How Old Calam Got Her Name / 301
Calamity Jane Meets a Long-Lost Lover / 305
Chapter 12 — The Man Who Never Was / 309
Deadwood Dick / 311
Deadwood Dick and the Grizzly / 312
Deadwood Dick to the Rescue / 315
Chapter 13 — An’ That’s My Roolin’ / 321
The Law West of the Pecos / 323
Ah Ling’s Hommyside / 325
Fining the Deceased / 328
The Hanging of Carlos Robles / 330
Roy Bean’s Pet Bear / 332
Judge Barker, Old Zim, and the One-Eyed Mule / 335
El Cuatro de Julio / 337
A Drink’s Worth of Punishment / 337
Chapter 14 — Sky Pilots / 339
Preachin’ One Can Understand / 341
The Parable of the Prodigal Son / 345
Lissen to the Heavenly Poker Player! / 347
Hear What the Great Herd Book Says! / 349
A Funeral Oration / 349
A Black Hills Sermon / 350
Chapter 15 — Critters / 353
The Valley of Headless Men / 355
A loup-Garou, or a Windigo, or Maybe a Carcajou / 359
The Call of the Wild / 365
The Windigo / 369
The Great White Stallion of the West / 370
Until Judgment Day / 373
El Diablo Negro / 376
Snake Yarns / 381
A Rolling Snake Gathers No Moss / 383
The White Snakes / 385
A Pair of Fine Boots / 386
The Young Man Who Wanted to Be Snakebit / 389
The Peg-Leg Cat / 391
Chapter 16 — Mostly Lies / 393
Somebody in My Bed / 395
The Weather / 397
It Gets Mighty Cold Around Here / 398
Texican Liars / 400
Chapter 17 — Miracles, Saints, and Witches / 401
The Three Lost Daughters / 403
The Two Witches / 405
The Owl Witch / 406
San Isidro and the Angel / 407
A Riddle / 409
The Many-Times-Killed Young Man / 411
The Caveman of the Hermit Peaks / 416
The Miracles of Chimayo / 420
The Miraculous Staircase / 424
The Hitchhiker / 427
Source Notes / 431
Bibliography / 441
Foreword / xv
Chapter 1 — Ohio Fever / 3
The Devil and Major Stobo / 5
The Cheater Cheated / 9
The Wild Hunt / 12
Dreams / 14
The Skeleton Hand / 15
The Wild Hunter of the Juniata / 23
The Consequences of Not Letting a Man Have His Drink / 28
The Laughing Head / 31
Chapter 2 — The Long Hunters / 35
Tarzan Boone / 37
Swallowing a Scalping Knife / 42
That’s John’s Gun! / 43
A Clever Runner / 44
A Damn Good Jump / 45
The Warrior Woman / 49
The Corcondyle Head / 51
Chapter 3 — Backwoodsmen / 55
The Irrepressible Backwoodsman and Original Humorist / 57
Grinning the Bark Off a Tree / 60
Davy Crockett on the Stump / 61
The Drinks Are on Me, Gentlemen / 61
Gouging the Critter / 62
Jim Bowie and His Big Knife / 63
Won’t You Light, Stranger? / 69
Ohio Poem / 70
Chapter 4 — Ring-Tailed Roarers of the Western Waters / 71
A Shooting Match / 75
Did Such a Helliferocious Man Ever Live? / 77
Like Father, Like Daughter / 80
She Fought Her Weigh in She-B’ars / 81
He Crowed and Flapped His Wings / 83
A Fight Between Keelboatmen Averted / 84
Stranger, Is This a Free Fight? / 85
The Screaming Head / 85
Stopping Drinking for Good / 89
Chapter 5 — Mountain Men / 91
Little Big Man / 95
Kit Carson and the Grizzlies / 100
Run for Your Life, White Man! / 103
Old Solitaire / 109
Pegleg Smith and Headless Harry / 121
Mind the Time We Took Pawnee Topknots? / 127
Lover Boy of the Prairies / 128
Putrefactions / 135
The Injin Killed Me Dead / 137
Heaven According to Old Gabe / 139
Damn Good Shootin’ / 141
Uncle Joe the Humorist / 146
Ba’tiste’s Nightmare / 147
Song of the Voyageur / 150
Chapter 6 — Timber! / 151
Paul Bunyan and His Little Blue Ox / 153
Paul Bunyan Helps to Build a Railroad / 157
Kidnapped by a Flea / 162
Thunder Bay / 167
Chapter 7 — Gold! Gold! Gold! / 171
Tommy-Knockers / 173
It Had a Light Where Its Heart Ought to Have Been / 177
He Ate All the Democrats of Hinsdale County / 180
A Golden-Haired Fellow / 184
Treasures of Various Kinds / 185
The Missing Chest / 190
Chapter 8 — Git Along Little Dogies / 195
The Saga of Pecos Bill / 197
The Taming of Pecos Bill’s Gal Sue / 203
Coyote Makes a Texas Cowboy / 209
The Heart-Shaped Mark / 212
The Skeleton Bride / 215
Western Jack and the Cornstalk / 217
Better Move That Drat Thing! / 219
Being Afoot in Roswell / 220
Outstunk the Skunk / 220
Chapter 9 — They Died with Their Boots On / 221
No-Head Joaquín and Three-Fingered Jack / 225
The Headless Horseman of the Mother Lode / 232
El Keed / 235
El Chivato / 241
He Rose from the Grave / 244
A Whale of a Fellow with a Gun / 248
The King of the Pistoleers / 255
A Western Duel / 263
The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis / 264
Killing Off the James Boys / 266
Theme and Variations / 267
The Winchester Ghosts / 272
Chapter 10 — Bucking the Tiger / 277
A Hard Head / 279
Indians Can Play Poker / 281
Jim Bowie Takes a Hand / 282
The Curly-Headed Little Boy / 284
Shall We Have a Drop? / 287
Colonel Tubbs Strikes It Rich / 289
Good for Our Entire Assets / 294
The One-Eyed Gambler / 295
Chapter 11 — Lady Wildcats of the Plains / 297
Born Before Her Time / 299
How Old Calam Got Her Name / 301
Calamity Jane Meets a Long-Lost Lover / 305
Chapter 12 — The Man Who Never Was / 309
Deadwood Dick / 311
Deadwood Dick and the Grizzly / 312
Deadwood Dick to the Rescue / 315
Chapter 13 — An’ That’s My Roolin’ / 321
The Law West of the Pecos / 323
Ah Ling’s Hommyside / 325
Fining the Deceased / 328
The Hanging of Carlos Robles / 330
Roy Bean’s Pet Bear / 332
Judge Barker, Old Zim, and the One-Eyed Mule / 335
El Cuatro de Julio / 337
A Drink’s Worth of Punishment / 337
Chapter 14 — Sky Pilots / 339
Preachin’ One Can Understand / 341
The Parable of the Prodigal Son / 345
Lissen to the Heavenly Poker Player! / 347
Hear What the Great Herd Book Says! / 349
A Funeral Oration / 349
A Black Hills Sermon / 350
Chapter 15 — Critters / 353
The Valley of Headless Men / 355
A loup-Garou, or a Windigo, or Maybe a Carcajou / 359
The Call of the Wild / 365
The Windigo / 369
The Great White Stallion of the West / 370
Until Judgment Day / 373
El Diablo Negro / 376
Snake Yarns / 381
A Rolling Snake Gathers No Moss / 383
The White Snakes / 385
A Pair of Fine Boots / 386
The Young Man Who Wanted to Be Snakebit / 389
The Peg-Leg Cat / 391
Chapter 16 — Mostly Lies / 393
Somebody in My Bed / 395
The Weather / 397
It Gets Mighty Cold Around Here / 398
Texican Liars / 400
Chapter 17 — Miracles, Saints, and Witches / 401
The Three Lost Daughters / 403
The Two Witches / 405
The Owl Witch / 406
San Isidro and the Angel / 407
A Riddle / 409
The Many-Times-Killed Young Man / 411
The Caveman of the Hermit Peaks / 416
The Miracles of Chimayo / 420
The Miraculous Staircase / 424
The Hitchhiker / 427
Source Notes / 431
Bibliography / 441