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    Lincoln legends myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president / by Steers, Edward

    Published 2007
    Subjects: “…Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Legends.…”
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    Choctaw tales

    Published 2004
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    After the war the lives and images of major Civil War figures after the shooting stopped / by Hardin, David, 1940-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. …”
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    Making pictures in stone American Indian rock art of the Northeast / by Lenik, Edward J., 1932-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Algonquian people in the northeast -- Ezra Stiles : pioneer rock art researcher in eighteenth-century New England -- Culturally altered trees -- Nonportable rock art sites -- Landscapes in myths and legends -- Portable rock art -- Pendants and gorgets -- Decorated tablets, pebbles, and cobbles -- Sculpted heads and effigy faces -- Decorated stone tools -- Nonutilitarian effigy stones -- Dreams, visions, and signs.…”
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    A secession crisis enigma William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man" / by Crofts, Daniel W.

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…-- The Lincoln interviews -- Hurlbert and Ward -- Promoting the diary -- Hurlbert and the world -- Connecting past and present -- Scandal and summation -- Epilogue: "The diary of a public man" and the Lincoln legend -- Appendix: The text of "The diary of a public man."…”
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    At the font of the marvelous exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / by Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…-- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.…”
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    John Brown still lives! America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / by Gilpin, R. Blakeslee

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America -- Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown -- The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero -- Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown -- A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown -- Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP -- The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benét and the silencing of John Brown's body -- The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South -- Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown -- Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history -- Epilogue. …”
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    The games presidents play sports and the presidency / by Watterson, John Sayle

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Kennedy : swimming into politics -- Lyndon Johnson : the games he didn't play -- Richard Nixon : show me a good loser-- -- Gerald Ford : the pigskin president -- Jimmy Carter : more than meets the eye -- Ronald Reagan : creating a sports legend -- George H.W. Bush : TR revisted -- Bill Clinton : oh, how he played the game -- George W. …”
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    Light on the path the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians /

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Hally -- Lithics, shellfish, and beavers / Mark Williams and Scott Jones -- The Cussita migration legend : history, ideology, and the politics of mythmaking / Steven C. …”
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