Myths, legends, and folktales of America : an anthology
Presents a variety of myths, tales, and legends. Includes Native American tales about creation, goddesses, trickster gods, the Indian and the white man, as well as Hispanic American, Asian American, Anglo American, and African American stories. Features patriotic heroes, American loners, frontiersman, and tall tales, Western outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys, slave rebels, and Blues legends, among other topics
Folklore
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) : illustrations
9780199728954, 9780195117844, 9781280529665, 019972895X, 0195117840, 1280529660
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Zuni: the separation of the first parents
A Cherokee Earth-diver creation myth
A Tewa emergence creation myth
A Hawaiian creation myth
A Navajo myth of Changing Woman
A Sioux myth of White Buffalo Woman
An Inuit myth of Sedna
A Karuk myth of Coyote
A Tsimshian myth of Raven
A Brule Sioux myth of the coming of the white man
The virgin of Guadalupe
La Llorona [the weeping woman]
The sacred earth of Chimayo
The Penitentes, the Passion
The work ethic : Cotton Mather
The almighty dollar : Benjamin Franklin
God and the elect : Jonathan Edwards
The melting pot : Crevecoeur
Manifest destiny : Richard Yates and William Gilpin
Miss Liberty
Uncle Sam
Yankee Doodle
The transcendental deity : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Technology apotheosized : Henry David Thoreau
The dynamo : Henry Adams
The Book of Mormon
The devil in the West : Charles O. Brown
The spiritual : Go down, Moses
God and the devil : the devil's doing
"The creation" : James Weldon Johnson
The Nation of Islam
Voodoo
Hare Krishna and other movements
Amitabha's song / Gary Snyder. Hopi ogres
The Iroquois flying head
The Chinook ship monster
Bigfoot
The Jersey devil
Moby Dick
A boarhog for a husband
The poor man and the snake
The dragon. The Wabanaki Glooskap : the fight with the water monster
The Tewa Water Jar Boy
The Iroquois Hiawatha
The Ojibwa corn hero
An Oneida maiden hero
Geronimo : Apache hero
Custer's last stand : two versions
George Washington : "I cannot tell a lie"
Abraham Lincoln : Honest Abe
Paul Revere : the midnight ride
Johnny Appleseed
Davy Crockett
Mike Fink
Paul Bunyan
Joe Magarac
Mountain men
Miners
Betsey and the mole
The Yankee pedlar
Billy the Kid
Jesse James
Wild Bill Hickok
Wyatt Earp
The hanging judge
The cowboy's prayer
Pecos Bill
Annie Oakley
Calamity Jane
Ma Barker
Bonnie and Clyde
Superman
Elvis : Jesus and Elvis
Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Brer Rabbit and the tar baby
Stagolee
John Henry
Frankie and Johnny
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday : lady sings the Blues
Martin Luther King, Jr. : I have a dream
To Mississippi youth
Malcolm X
Yeh-Shen
The guru
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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