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

Subjects: “…Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Legends.…”
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Legends of our times native cowboy life / by Baillargeon, Morgan

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Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold / by Norton, Terry L., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature -- Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words -- Origins -- The three worlds -- Fire -- Corn and game -- Disease and medicine -- The bear and the bear songs -- Tobacco -- The Pleiades and the pine cone -- Killing the great monsters -- The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu -- The leech place -- The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror -- The red man and the Uktena -- Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains -- The great hawks -- The hunter in the Dakwa -- Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers -- Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress -- The Stone Man of the Mountains -- The raven mockers -- The immortals and the water cannibals -- The man who traveled to the world below -- Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald -- Legends of Pilot Knob -- Yahula -- The unseen helpers -- Legends from history by or about the Cherokee -- The lost Cherokee -- Ga'na and the Cherokee -- The Mohawk warriors -- The false warriors -- Jocassee -- Some heroic acts in wars with whites -- Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry -- Notes on sources used in the retellings.…”
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Native American legends of the Southeast tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and other nations / by Lankford, George E., 1938-

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Fossil legends of the first Americans / by Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Marsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends.…”
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Rudder from leader to legend / by Hatfield, Thomas M.

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The epic of Qayak the longest story ever told by my people / by Oman, Lela Kiana

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General George E. Pickett in life & legend by Gordon, Lesley J. (Lesley Jill)

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Ojibway heritage / by Johnston, Basil

Subjects: “…Ojibwa Indians Legends.…”

Steel drivin' man John Henry, the untold story of an American legend / by Nelson, Scott Reynolds

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Choctaw tales

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Living by stories : a journey of landscape and memory / by Robinson, Harry, 1900-1990

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Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connected lives and legends / by Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010

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Navajo places history, legend, landscape : a narrative of important places on and near the Navajo Reservation, with notes on their significance to Navajo culture and history / by Linford, Laurance D.

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Algonquian spirit contemporary translations of the Algonquian literatures of North America /

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Disturbing the peace Black culture and the police power after slavery / by Wagner, Bryan

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

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-

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.

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-

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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