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Legends and Tales of the American West

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.1998

Verlag

Pantheon Schocken Books

Seitenzahl

466

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,6/2,8 cm

Gewicht

791 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-375-70266-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.1998

Verlag

Pantheon Schocken Books

Seitenzahl

466

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,6/2,8 cm

Gewicht

791 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-375-70266-2

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • It Ain’t Necessarily So  /  xiii
    Foreword  /  xv
     
    Chapter 1 — Ohio Fever  /  3
    The Devil and Major Stobo  /  5
    The Cheater Cheated  /  9
    The Wild Hunt  /  12
    Dreams  /  14
    The Skeleton Hand  /  15
    The Wild Hunter of the Juniata  /  23
    The Consequences of Not Letting a Man Have His Drink  /  28
    The Laughing Head  /  31
     
    Chapter 2 — The Long Hunters  /  35
    Tarzan Boone  /  37
    Swallowing a Scalping Knife  /  42
    That’s John’s Gun!  /  43
    A Clever Runner  /  44
    A Damn Good Jump  /  45
    The Warrior Woman  /  49
    The Corcondyle Head  /  51
     
    Chapter 3 — Backwoodsmen  /  55
    The Irrepressible Backwoodsman and Original Humorist   /  57
    Grinning the Bark Off a Tree  /  60
    Davy Crockett on the Stump  /  61
    The Drinks Are on Me, Gentlemen  /  61
    Gouging the Critter  /  62
    Jim Bowie and His Big Knife  /  63
    Won’t You Light, Stranger?  /  69
    Ohio Poem  /  70
     
    Chapter 4 — Ring-Tailed Roarers of the Western Waters  /  71
    A Shooting Match  /  75
    Did Such a Helliferocious Man Ever Live?  /  77
    Like Father, Like Daughter  /  80
    She Fought Her Weigh in She-B’ars  /  81
    He Crowed and Flapped His Wings  /  83
    A Fight Between Keelboatmen Averted  /  84
    Stranger, Is This a Free Fight?  /  85
    The Screaming Head  /  85
    Stopping Drinking for Good  /  89
     
    Chapter 5 — Mountain Men  /  91
    Little Big Man  /  95
    Kit Carson and the Grizzlies  /  100
    Run for Your Life, White Man!  /  103
    Old Solitaire  /  109
    Pegleg Smith and Headless Harry  /  121
    Mind the Time We Took Pawnee Topknots?  /  127
    Lover Boy of the Prairies  /  128
    Putrefactions  /  135
    The Injin Killed Me Dead  /  137
    Heaven According to Old Gabe  /  139
    Damn Good Shootin’  /  141
    Uncle Joe the Humorist  /  146
    Ba’tiste’s Nightmare  /  147
    Song of the Voyageur  /  150
     
    Chapter 6 — Timber!  /  151
    Paul Bunyan and His Little Blue Ox  /  153
    Paul Bunyan Helps to Build a Railroad  /  157
    Kidnapped by a Flea  /  162
    Thunder Bay  /  167
     
    Chapter 7 — Gold! Gold! Gold!  /  171
    Tommy-Knockers  /  173
    It Had a Light Where Its Heart Ought to Have Been  /  177
    He Ate All the Democrats of Hinsdale County  /  180
    A Golden-Haired Fellow  /  184
    Treasures of Various Kinds  /  185
    The Missing Chest  /  190
     
    Chapter 8 — Git Along Little Dogies  /  195
    The Saga of Pecos Bill  /  197
    The Taming of Pecos Bill’s Gal Sue  /  203
    Coyote Makes a Texas Cowboy  /  209
    The Heart-Shaped Mark  /  212
    The Skeleton Bride  /  215
    Western Jack and the Cornstalk  /  217
    Better Move That Drat Thing!  /  219
    Being Afoot in Roswell  /  220
    Outstunk the Skunk  /  220
     
    Chapter 9 — They Died with Their Boots On  /  221
    No-Head Joaquín and Three-Fingered Jack  /  225
    The Headless Horseman of the Mother Lode  /  232
    El Keed  /  235
    El Chivato  /  241
    He Rose from the Grave  /  244
    A Whale of a Fellow with a Gun  /  248
    The King of the Pistoleers  /  255
    A Western Duel  /  263
    The Nuptials of Dangerous Davis  /  264
    Killing Off the James Boys  /  266
    Theme and Variations  /  267
    The Winchester Ghosts  /  272
     
    Chapter 10 — Bucking the Tiger  /  277
    A Hard Head  /  279
    Indians Can Play Poker  /  281
    Jim Bowie Takes a Hand  /  282
    The Curly-Headed Little Boy  /  284
    Shall We Have a Drop?  /  287
    Colonel Tubbs Strikes It Rich  /  289
    Good for Our Entire Assets  /  294
    The One-Eyed Gambler  /  295
     
    Chapter 11 — Lady Wildcats of the Plains  /  297
    Born Before Her Time  /  299
    How Old Calam Got Her Name  /  301
    Calamity Jane Meets a Long-Lost Lover  /  305
     
    Chapter 12 — The Man Who Never Was  /  309
    Deadwood Dick  /  311
    Deadwood Dick and the Grizzly  /  312
    Deadwood Dick to the Rescue  /  315
     
    Chapter 13 — An’ That’s My Roolin’  /  321
    The Law West of the Pecos  /  323
    Ah Ling’s Hommyside  /  325
    Fining the Deceased  /  328
    The Hanging of Carlos Robles  /  330
    Roy Bean’s Pet Bear  /  332
    Judge Barker, Old Zim, and the One-Eyed Mule  /  335
    El Cuatro de Julio  /  337
    A Drink’s Worth of Punishment  /  337
     
    Chapter 14 — Sky Pilots  /  339
    Preachin’ One Can Understand  /  341
    The Parable of the Prodigal Son  /  345
    Lissen to the Heavenly Poker Player!  /  347
    Hear What the Great Herd Book Says!  /  349
    A Funeral Oration  /  349
    A Black Hills Sermon  /  350
     
    Chapter 15 — Critters  /  353
    The Valley of Headless Men  /  355
    A loup-Garou, or a Windigo, or Maybe a Carcajou  /  359
    The Call of the Wild  /  365
    The Windigo  /  369
    The Great White Stallion of the West  /  370
    Until Judgment Day  /  373
    El Diablo Negro  /  376
    Snake Yarns  /  381
    A Rolling Snake Gathers No Moss  /  383
    The White Snakes  /  385
    A Pair of Fine Boots  /  386
    The Young Man Who Wanted to Be Snakebit  /  389
    The Peg-Leg Cat  /  391
     
    Chapter 16 — Mostly Lies  /  393
    Somebody in My Bed  /  395
    The Weather  /  397
    It Gets Mighty Cold Around Here  /  398
    Texican Liars  /  400
     
    Chapter 17 — Miracles, Saints, and Witches  /  401
    The Three Lost Daughters  /  403
    The Two Witches  /  405
    The Owl Witch  /  406
    San Isidro and the Angel  /  407
    A Riddle  /  409
    The Many-Times-Killed Young Man  /  411
    The Caveman of the Hermit Peaks  /  416
    The Miracles of Chimayo  /  420
    The Miraculous Staircase  /  424
    The Hitchhiker  /  427
     
    Source Notes  /  431
    Bibliography  /  441