Legends and Tales of the American West

by Richard Erdoes

  Dorson, Richard M. America in Legend. New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.

  ——. Davy Crockett, American Comic Legend. New York: Rockland Editions, 1939.

  Ellis, Amanda. Legends and Tales of the Rockies. Colorado Springs: Denton Printing Co., 1954.

  Erdoes, Richard. Saloons of the Old West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

  Erenhart, Perry. Treasure Tales of the Rockies. Denver: Sage Books, 1961.

  Espinoza, José Manuel. “Spanish Folk Tales from New Mexico.” Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society 30 (1937): xvi–xvii.

  Favour, Alpheus H. Old Bill Williams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936.

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  Garrard, Lewis H. Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1938.

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  Lovelace, Leland. Lost Mines and Hidden Treasure. San Antonio, Texas: Naylor Co., 1956.

  McDaniel, Ruel. Vinegaroon. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, 1936.

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  Nye, Bill. Bill Nye and the Boomerang. Chicago: Belford & Clarke, 1881.

  Patterson, Paul. Pecos Tales. Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1967.

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  Porter, Clyde, and Mae Reed Porter. Ruxton of the Rockies. Edited by LeRoy Hafen. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.

  [Porter, William Sydney.] Complete Works of O. Henry. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937.

  Randolph, Vance. Ozark Superstitions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1947.

  ——. Sticks in the Knapsack and Other Ozark Folk Tales. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.

  Reader’s Digest. American Folklore and Legend. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Readers Digest Assn., 1975.

  Russell, Carl P. Picture Books of the Fur Trade History. Reprinted from the Missouri Historical Society Bulletin 4, no. 3 (April 1948).

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  Shackford, James A. David Crockett, the Man and the Legend. Edited by John B. Shackford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956.

  Sonnichsen, C. L. Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. Old Greenwich, Conn.: Devin Adair Co., 1935.

  Stevens, James. The Saginaw Paul Bunyan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.

  Thorpe, Howard. Songs of the Cowboy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908.

  Triplett, Colonel Frank. Conquering the Wilderness. New York: N. D. Thompson & Co., 1883.

  Vestal, Stanley. Mountain Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937.

  Weigle, Marta. Two Guadalupes: Legends and Magic Tales from New Mexico. Santa Fe, N.M.: Ancient City Press, 1987.

  Wells, Frank Evarts. Story of Old Bill Williams. A collection of stories about Old Bill printed and sold at Williams, Arizona, in pamphlet form.

  About the Author

  Richard Erdoes was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and educated in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. His many books on the American West include Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions; Saloons of the West; The Rain Dance People; The Sun Dance People; and The Sound of Flutes. With Alfonso Ortiz he edited and selected American Indian Myths and Legends, and with Mary Crow Dog he wrote Lakota Woman. His photographs have been published in National Geographic, Life, and other magazines, and he created the illustrations that appear in this volume. He now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.