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Legends and Tales of the American West Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Richard Erdoes
From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, this volume offers a wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales and fanciful yarns. Line drawings.
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rom Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology.
In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real people and real events; more than a few, however, grew taller and funnier as they made their rounds from wagon train to campfire to rodeo to miners' quarters. But even if it is far from established that Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were able to kill three men with one bullet or subdue ferocious grizzly bears with their fists, they come vividly to life here as beloved characters who have become part of the fabric of the American imagination.
In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and everything is larger than life and bragging is elevated into an art form. Many of these stories are of real people and real events; more than a few, however, grew taller and funnier as they made their rounds from wagon train to campfire to rodeo to miners' quarters. But even if it is far from established that Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were able to kill three men with one bullet or subdue ferocious grizzly bears with their fists, they come vividly to life here as beloved characters who have become part of the fabric of the American imagination.
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- Title Legends and Tales of the American West
- Author Richard Erdoes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, NY USA
- Date 1998-09-01
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780375702662 / 0375702660
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.26 x 1.03 in (23.42 x 15.90 x 2.62 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Library of Congress subjects Legends - West (U.S.), Tales - West (U.S.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98015793
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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