![]() ![]() ![]() San Souci, Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) proves that some women are larger than life as well. ![]() Two other collections, American Tall Tales (Puffin Books) by Adrien Stoutenburg, and American Tall Talesīy Mary Pope Osborne, also recounts the adventures of these larger than life characters and Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale by Robert D. A broader treatment of American Folklore is Great American Folklore:Legends, Tales, Ballads and Superstitions from All Across America, Compiled by Kemp P. Tall Tale America : A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes by Walter Blair. There are plenty of collections of Tall Tales available. Or Western bound homesteaders like Febold Feboldson or Windwagon Smith or legendary figures like Davy Crockett, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry or Mike Fink. And the pioneer and frontier spirit manages to live on in the stories whether about the giant logger Paul Bunyan, or the Steelman Joe Magarac, or the cowboy Pecos Bill. It seems to be the nature of telling tall tales - that spirit of "one-ups-man-ship" that each successive teller tries to add to the "myth" be it folklore or "fakelore". Though many of the tales like their tellers were immigrants, the big new land inspired big new tales. BattleĪmerican Tall Tales possess some of the very essence of the American spirit. The rare capacity to reinvent itself over and over." Kemp P. "America has an exuberant folklore, a tradition of wit that possesses ![]() Hatter's Classics: Tall Tales and Tricksters ![]()
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