Where the road forks and the river bends : travelers' tales. The Arkansas traveler
Davy Crockett and the fiddler in the river
How Uncle Steve interpreted Spanish
How Johnny Appleseed brought apple blossoms to the West
The six thousand year principle
A Yankee finishes his meal
The Hoosier and the salt pile
An experienced river pilot
Mississippi sounding calls
"It's all right, Captain"
Nehemiah Fluf'kin's visit to the city
On a slow train through Arkansaw [i.e. Arkansas]
The ballad of Casey Jones
The traveler's homecoming.
The hills beyond : pioneer tales. Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Daniel Boone's tale of the three notches
A pioneer woman fights back
How Muldrow found his neighbor
The day Jim Bridger ran off
The death of a mountain man.
The fightin' spirit. Too long between fights
How Mike Fink beat Davy Crockett in a shooting match
Mike Fink and the deacon's bull
Snake Thompson, a good fiddler
Mormon Zack wastes no time
The sissy from Hardscrabble County
John Henry, the steel-drivin' man
The Hatfield-McCoy feud : how it started
Mose Humphreys : the fighting fireman
Strap Buckner, the fightingest man
Hunting and fishing yarns. How Jack Wood got thin
The tale of the dog with the upside, downside legs
Bee hunting in the Ozarks
A coon-hunt in a fency country
Davy Crockett meets his match
Shotgun Charlie goes fishing
Old Joe, the legendary catfish
Anything a man can do, a woman does better.
Love and marriage. High Horse's courting : a Sioux love story
Jemima, what have you done to me?
Crockett pops the question
How Daniel Boone found his wife
Superstitions : love and marriage
The bride and groom of Pisgah
The queen of the bull-whackers
Birthing, the frontier way
Superstitions : pregnancy and infants
Why womens is sharper dan mens
Preachers and their congregations. If only the angels knew
Predestination for the Indian
Soapy Smith preaches to the damned
How they sing in the city
Superstitions about faith
The reformation of Uncle Billy.
Witches, ghosts, and strange events. Granny Frone
The tale of the talking eggs
The black cats are talking
Supernatural superstitions
The seven-year light on Bone Hill
The girl with the lavender dress.
Animal tales. Coyote turns into a buffalo : a Pawnee myth
The wonderful tar-baby story
How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
Never hold your head too high
Country life and country laughter. Trespassers beware
When you don't know, guess
A still tongue makes a wise head
The vinegar queen's supper
Change the name of Arkansas?
Hog-thieves hanging together
Shotgun Charlie's sage advice
Listen to the people talk
The wild, wild West. The West
The robbers and the widow
Jesse James meets Wild Bill
The fateful Northfield raid
Wyatt Earp plays a lone hand
Shoot-out at the O.K. Corral
Butch Cassidy robs the payroll train
Judge Parker, the hanging judge
Judge Three-Legged Willie
The death of Billy the Kid
Annie Oakley makes her name
The disappointed tenderfoot
The cowboy: funny, tough, and lonesome. Home on the range
Bone Mizell buries a buddy
The tall tales of swappers, liars, and boasters. A stubborn critter
The mare with the false tail
How a dog made Pete Andrews rich
Bill Greenfield, a great liar
John Darling, an even bigger liar
Some liars of the Old West
The cat with the wooden paw
Febold Feboldson, the most inventingest man
Gib Morgan and the whickles
How Gib invented rubber boots
How Gib saved his tool dresser.
Paul Bunyan and his world. Paul Bunyan's birth
Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue ox
Why the Great Lakes have no whales
How Paul Bunyan cleared North Dakota
Tony Beaver meets Paul Bunyan.