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Myths, legends, and folktales of America : an anthology / [edited by] David Leeming and Jake Page

Leeming, David Adams, 1937- ; Page, Jake, 1936-

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

Online Ressource (xi, 221 p.) : ill.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index. - Description based on print version record. - Description based on print version record. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

978-0-19-972895-4 (electronic bk.); 0-19-972895-X (electronic bk.)

OCoLC: 71794747 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

[S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library

Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library

GR105

398.0973 ; 398/.0973     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC011000

LOC-SH: Folklore -- United States ; Tales -- United States ; Legends -- United States ; Indians of North America -- Folklore ; African Americans -- Folklore ; Ethnic folklore -- United States ; United States -- History ; United States -- Social life and customs -- États-Unis -- Moeurs et coutumes -- United States

Electronic books / Folklore / History ; United States / History ; United States / Social life and customs / États-Unis / Moeurs et coutumes / United States ; African Americans / Folklore ; Ethnic folklore / United States ; Folklore / United States ; Indians of North America / Folklore ; Legends / United States ; Tales / United States

Presents a variety of myths, tales, and legends. Includes Native American tales about creation, goddesses, trickster gods, the Indian and the white man, as well as Hispanic American, Asian American, Anglo American, and African American stories. Features patriotic heroes, American loners, frontiersman, and tall tales, Western outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys, slave rebels, and Blues legends, among other topics