Sweet land of story : thirty-six American tales to tell /
Thirty-six true, tall, and traditional tales, primarily from the nineteenth century or earlier, selected by a professional storyteller and divided by the region of the United States from which they originated.
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Little Rock [Ark.] :
August House Publishers,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Chicken-coop jail (Massachusetts)
- Amazingly long time (New York)
- Agnes and Henry, a love story (Massachusetts)
- Legend of Peter Rugg (New England)
- Dutchman's Inn (Pennsylvania)
- Pulling the rope (Conn.)
- Ghost dog (Virginia)
- Poor Tail-eee-poe (Kentucky)
- Caleb's wild ride (Virgina)
- Old Joe and the carpenter (North Carolina)
- Sam Davis and the hangman's noose (Tenn.)
- Big, smelly, hairy toe (North Carolina)
- Pecos Bill (Texas)
- Bluebonnet (Comanche/Texas)
- Salting the pudding (Alabama)
- Strongest of all (Louisiana)
- Sam Bass (Texas)
- Haint that roared (Alabama)
- Jack and the bogey man (Texas)
- What gold? (Kansas)
- What you wish for (Ojibwa/Michigan)
- Saint Johnny of the apple orchards (Ohio)
- Calamity Jane (South Dakota)
- Jesse James saves the day (Missouri)
- Buffalo Bill Cody and the bandits (Rocky Mountains)
- Not even a Saint (New Mexico)
- Devil's tower (Arapaho/Wyoming)
- Mountain man and the grizzlies (Colorado)
- Shoot-out in Benson (Arizona)
- La Escalara Famosa / The famous stair (New Mexico)
- Scarface (Blackfoot/Northern Rockies)
- His mother tongue (Calif.)
- Pu-nia and the Shark King (Hawaii)
- Paul Bunyan makes progess (Pacific northwest)
- Why animals have no fire (Couer d'Alene/Idaho)
- Eagle Island (Tlingit/Alaska).