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Tall tale America : a legendary history of our humorous heroes
Blair, Walter
Adult Nonfiction 398.20973 B
Blair, Walter
Adult Nonfiction 398.20973 B
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| 1 - Overcoming Hardships, America Gets Discovered and Settled | |
| Leif the Lucky Discovers America, 1000 A.D. | |
| The Continent Temporarily Misplaced | |
| Columbus Discovers America for Good, 1492 | |
| Ponce de Leon and Other Discoverers Have a Time of It | |
| Getting the Place Settled | |
| 2 - Captain Stormalong, the Revolution and Clipper Ships | |
| John Smith in Virginia, 1607 | |
| Miles Standish in New England, 1620 | |
| Young Stormalong Goes to Sea and Licks a Kraken Revolution Begins, 1775 | |
| Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
| Stormy Helps Paul Jones in the Raid on Whitehaven, 1778, and in the Battle off Flamborough, 1779 | |
| End of Revolution, 1783 | |
| Old Stormy Builds the Albatross, Whitens Cliffs and Perfects Whaling | |
| 3 - Jonathan Slick, Southerners, Dutchmen and Daniel Boone | |
| Hardships in Yankeeland | |
| "Sharp Bargains Make Fat Purses" | |
| Jonathan Drives a Mighty Fine | |
| Bargain He Sees the Whole of the Country | |
| Daniel Boone's Discovery of Kentucky and His Other Puzzling Habits | |
| 4 - Mike Fink, King of Mississippi | |
| Keelboatmen: George Washington, President, 1789-1797 | |
| John Adams, President, 1797-1801 | |
| Thomas Jefferson, President, 1801-1809 | |
| Mike Fink Born in Pittsburgh | |
| His Education on the Frontier | |
| He Starts Keelboating | |
| He Battles and Becomes King of the Keelboatman | |
| 5 - Mike Fink, Mountain Man in the Far West | |
| Fulton Invents the Steamboat, 1807 | |
| Mike Fights a Steamboat, Rough and Tumble | |
| He Goes West with Ashley-Henry | |
| Trapping Expedition, 1822-1823 | |
| James Monroe, President, 1817-1825 | |
| Mike Out-traps the Mountain Men | |
| He Beats Davy Crockett in a Shooting Match | |
| 6 - Davy Crockett, Tennessee Settler | |
| The Amazing Crockett Family | |
| Davy Becomes a Great Hunter | |
| He Marries a Streak of Lightning and Sets Up as a Settler | |
| He Tames Wild Beasts, including the Bear, Death Hug, and Operates a Fertile Farm | |
| 7 - Davy Crockett, Soldier, Congressman and Comet Licker | |
| Davy Whops the Indians "Crockett for Congress" (twice) | |
| Andrew Jackson, President, 1829-1837 | |
| Davy Defeats the Spaniards in Texas | |
| End of War, 1836 | |
| Davy Licks a Dangerous Comet | |
| He Unfreezes the Earth | |
| 8 - Johnny Appleseed, Planter of Orchards on the Frontier | |
| Johnny's Extraordinary Birth and Boyhood | |
| He Discovers His Mission, Apple Trees for the West | |
| Martin Van Buren, President, 1837-1841 | |
| Johnny Visits the Merritts | |
| He Dies and Haunts Apple Orchards | |
| 9 - Mose, New York Firemen and California | |
| Miner: The Growth of New York | |
| James K. Polk, President, 1849-1850 | |
| "The Bowery, The Bowery" | |
| Mose, the World-Renowned | |
| He Joins Fire Co. No. 40 | |
| He Saves Four People on One Trip | |
| Mexican War, 1846-1848 | |
| California Gold Rush, 1849 | |
| Mose Strikes It | |
| Rich in the Gold Fields | |
| 10 - Windwagon Smith and the Santa Fe Trail Seaman | |
| Tom Smith's Theory about Dry Oceans | |
| His Upsetting Arrival in Westport, Mo. | |
| Test Trip of the Windwagon: Westport to Council | |
| Groves and Back in Seven Days | |
| Westport and Santa Fe Dry Ocean Navigation Company, Inc. | |
| Franklin Pierce, President, 1853-1857 | |
| Super-Windwagon-Farewell | |
| Ensign Dick Yocum and Admiral Windwagon Smith | |
| 11 - Feboldson and Bridger, Western Scientists | |
| Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
| Abraham Lincoln, President, 1861-1865 | |
| Year of the Great Heat | |
| Feboldson Provides Mud for Nebraska | |
| Year of th |
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