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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10901799.
- catalog contributor b10901800.
- catalog contributor b10901801.
- catalog coverage "United States History.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 221 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Myths, legends, and folktales of America.".
- catalog identifier "0195117832".
- catalog isFormatOf "Myths, legends, and folktales of America.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Myths, legends, and folktales of America.".
- catalog spatial "United States History.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "398/.0973 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Ethnic folklore United States.".
- catalog subject "Folklore United States.".
- catalog subject "GR105 .L43 1998".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Legends United States.".
- catalog subject "Tales United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Myths, legends, and folktales of America / David Leeming and Jake Page.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".