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" Tall tale America : "
Walter Blair ; illustrated by John Sandford.
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BL
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876040
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Blair, Walter,1900-1992.
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Tall tale America : : a legendary history of our humorous heroes /\ Walter Blair ; illustrated by John Sandford.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©1987.
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ix, 272 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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0226055965
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: 0606043411
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: 9780226055961
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: 9780606043410
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272).
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| Contents
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Overcoming hardships, America gets discovered and settled -- Captain Stormalong, the Revolution and clipper ships -- Jonathan Slick, Southerners, Dutchmen and Daniel Boone -- Mike Fink, King of Mississippi keelboatmen -- Mike Fink, mountain man in the far West -- Davy Crockett, Tennessee settler -- Davy Crockett, soldier, Congressman and comet licker -- Johnny Appleseed, planter of orchards on the frontier -- Mose, New York fireman and California miner -- Windwagon Smith and the Sante Fe Trail -- Feboldson and Bridger, western scientists -- Paul Bunyan, northwoods lumberman -- Pecos Bill, King of Texas cowboys -- John Henry and the machine in West Virginia -- Paul Bunyan, scientific industrialist in the oil fields -- Joe Magarac, Pittsburgh steel man -- We've still got heroes.
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The stories of American tall tale heroes- Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and others.
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Heroes-- United States, Humor.
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Legends-- United States.
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Tall tales-- United States.
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Heroes.
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Humoristische Literatur
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Legends-- United States.
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Legends.
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Tall tales.
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Tall tales.
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Anthologie.
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United States, History, Humor.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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398.2/0973
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E178.4.B56 1987
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HU 1822rvk
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