The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales / / 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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1957] ©1957 |
Year of Publication: | 1957 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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 |
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Summary: | Presents many Ozark folk tales shaped and polished by their oral tradition of storytelling documented over years in cabins, stores, campfires, and dances. |
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. |