The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales / / Vance Randolph.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Randolph, Vance,
• TeilnehmendeR: Halpert, Herbert.; Rounds, Glen.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1957]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 1957
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; The Talking Turtle --; Blood in the Cellar --; The Curse of Monegaw --; The Foreigner's Head --; Big Wind at Hurley --; The Well Digger --; Loosening Weeds --; The Wicked Stepmother --; Blind Date on Bull Creek --; The Hollering Story --; It Just Suits Me --; The Big Black Booger --; Big Fraid and Little Fraid --; The Wise Man's Questions --; Fiddler's Cave --; The Holy Rollers --; A Little More Cider --; The Spanish Burial --; To Hell with Joplin --; We Call It Lapland --; The Magic Window --; She's Got One Spoiled Tit --; The Yank Reunion --; Old Man Price's Boar --; The Two White Springs --; They All Started from Scratch --; Pinkley Was a Fool --; Women Run with the Wolves --; The Silent Rifle --; Jack and the Gower --; He Wasn't My Son-in-Law --; The Ghost Was Still Mad --; God Damn the Wind --; The Looking Glass --; Harvey and Myra --; Four Aces Ain't Good --; Tobey the Kingsnake --; Hell Among the Chickens --; Gabe Says It Ain't So Bad --; The Booger Dog --; An Innocent Man --; Good Country Buttermilk --; What They Told on Jasper --; Paw Won't Like This --; The Lazy Fanner --; A Private Room --; Brains for a Tanner --; They Moved the Graveyard --; Yocum Used his Head --; A Pickard Never Forgets --; The Chili King --; Turtles Grow Fast --; The Bolster --; Ida Street's Byword --; Tom and Jerry --; Wild Pigeons --; Sam Fenton Was Tempted --; Plumbing in Oklahoma --; Three Silver Legs --; Can Rats Read? --; The Paper Salesman --; He Talked Kind of Slow --; Them Drunken Painters --; The Son of a Bishop --; The Man That Hated Bats --; Gold Is Where You Find It --; Cruelty to Animals --; You Ain't Coming Back --; They Prayed to the Sun --; The Crow That Talked --; Jack and the Old Witch --; The Death of Little Jemson --; Signs of the Times --; Ice in the Beer --; Teddy Ketchum --; The Bloody Miller --; The Sheriff Give Him Rope --; Dunwoody's Last Joke --; Riding on the Cars --; The Belled Buzzard --; A Little Piece of Thread --; The Big Rabbits --; How to Get Rid of Doctors --; The Preacher Wouldn't Eat --; Three Foot Deeper --; The Necessities of Life --; Riddle Me This --; The Man from Texas --; A Barrel of Popcorn --; Change the Name of Arkansas? --; Johnny's Little Dog --; There's a Sleight to It --; On Trial for His Life --; Wolves Are My Brothers --; Old Horny --; She Wanted a Divorce --; Backhouse Albert's Money --; The Cat's Foot --; Little Toody --; Adam and Eve --; Notes --; Bibliography of Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231897716; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/rand94244
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Vance Randolph.

Presents many Ozark folk tales shaped and polished by their oral tradition of storytelling documented over years in cabins, stores, campfires, and dances.