A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the SouthBenjamin Albert Botkin More than 500 stories and more than 75 folk-songs, presenting the full cast of characters of the varied South-heroes like Patrick Henry, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Stonewall Jackson and the almost godlike Robert E. Lee; outlaws and pirates; poor whites, slaves, Cajuns, Gullahs, etc. |
Contents
With a Southern Accent | 1 |
Local Cracks and Slams | 34 |
Cured of Hatred | 103 |
The Unreconstructed South | 118 |
A Good Reputation | 126 |
Scientific Agriculture | 134 |
ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS | 146 |
Fine These | 181 |
The King Buzzard | 475 |
Has No Hair on His Tail | 509 |
The Sazerac | 560 |
Street Cries of Charleston | 682 |
Street Cries of New Orleans | 691 |
Introduction | 700 |
MINISTREL SONGS | 741 |
The Devils Nine Questions | 754 |
Jim Girtys Beef Story | 241 |
The Man Bilbo | 303 |
Southern StoryTellers | 417 |
nomical Humor | 763 |
Index of Subjects Names and Places | |
Copyright | |
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A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways ... Benjamin Albert Botkin No preview available - 1949 |