Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts

Ghost Stories from the American South

Politics & Social Sciences

McNeil, W.K.

Philosophy

Dell

Algic Researches is widely regarded as the greatest work of the "Father of American Folklore," Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Originally published in two volumes in 1839 and never before reprinted, Clearfield Company is pleased to release it in a consolidated edition, complete with a new introductory essay by folklorist W.K. McNeil. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an early exponent of Native American culture and the most influential folklorist of his day. A one-time Indian agent and the son-in-law of an influential Chippewa, Schoolcraft eventually secured a position of respect and trust among the Native American tribesmen which in turn provided him "a favored place at an artesian outlet of Indian imaginative lore." Convinced that oral narratives provided a key for unlocking the mystery of American Indian origins that had puzzled earlier writers, Schoolcraft eventually amassed a large corpus of Indian traditions which he published in numerous articles and books, most notably in Algic Researches. By "Algic," Schoolcraft referred to that family of American Indian tribes that had become dispersed over a wide area between the Atlantic and the Alleghenies. Algic Researches is the pivotal work in Native American folklore. Acclaimed in 1839 for its demonstration "of an oral imaginative lore among the aborigines of this continent," it helped to establish the Indian as the main subject of nineteenth century-folklore scholarship and demonstrated the importance of tales and legends in piecing together the history of Native Americans. The book also advanced the idea of comparative studies in folklore scholarship. Most important, given today's resurgent interest in Native American mythology, Algic Researches contained accounts of nearly fifty of the elemental myths and legends of the Odjibwa, Chippewa, Ottowa, Shawnee, Maskego, Saginaw, Algonquin, and Sioux.

Algic Researches : Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians. Indian Tales and Legends. (2 Volumes in 1)

History

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.

Americas

Genealogical Publishing Company

Originally published: Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 1847.

Supernaturalism of New England

Fiction

Whittier., John Greenleaf

Franz Rickaby was that rare individual who combined the earthiness of the vagabond with the talent of the musician and the training and patience of the academician. Rickaby, who came from a musical family, dropped out of high school and roamed the countryside for four years, working as a baker, farm laborer, band leader, and printer. After resuming his schooling, he eventually gained admittance to Harvard College, where he earned a Master's Degree. It was after he landed a teaching job at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks that Rickaby cultivated his interest in ballads and in the traditions of the dying lumber camp industry around Grand Forks. He soon became a very skilled collector of lumberjack songs and ballads, accumulating 225 in all, of which 55 appear in this work complete with melody lines. In addition to the songs themselves, which include songs of the sea and the battlefield as well as those dealing with logging, Rickaby's notes, writes W.K. McNeil, "were consistently informative, readable, and up-to-date as of 1925." A sampling of the song titles serves to give a flavor of the book and the life of the lumbermen: "Jack Haggerty's Flat River Girl," "The Shanty-Man's Life," "The Fatal Oak," "The Hanging Limb," "Fair Charlotte," "The Persian's Crew," and "The Dying Soldier." Though Franz Rickaby, who died in 1925 at the age of 36, did not live to see his book published, he produced a work of folklore that is as useful today as it was nearly seventy years ago.

Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy

Reference

Rickaby, Franz Lee

Genealogy

Clearfield Co.

Appalachian Images in Folk Popular Culture: Folk Popular Culture

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Univ Tennessee Press

The Appalachians and the Ozarks may have more in common with each other than with all the flat land between them, and one of the best things they share is a rich folksong tradition. The mountain folk of the South cherish and preserve the songs, one generation at a time. Here are 36 of the best, some familiar and some not, including lyrics, melodies, and historical notes.

Southern Mountain Folksongs (American Folklore Series)

Music

August House

The Appalachians and the Ozarks may have more in common with each other than with all the flat land between them, and one of the best things they share is a rich folksong tradition. The mountain folk of the South cherish and preserve the songs, one generation at a time. Here are 36 of the best, some familiar and some not, including lyrics, melodies, and historical notes.

Southern Mountain Folksongs: Traditional Folksongs from the Appalachians and the Ozarks (American Folklore Series)

August House Pub Inc

More than 130 traditional legends are presented in a colorful anthology of tales from the Southeastern Nations of Caddo, Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, and others, along with chapters on Native American mythology covering the three worlds. Reprint.

Native American Legends: Southeastern Legends : Tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations

Lankford, George E.

Lankford, George

Social Sciences

Ozark Country by W. K. McNeil A stimulating encounter with the vigorous mountain culture and enduring folklife of the Ozarks This study of folklife in the Ozarks surveys one of Americaâs most fascinating regions and shows its distinctive cultural imprint. The living heritage of Ozark country is detailed here beside the history of its earliest settlements and its unique folkways. Although many who pioneered in the Ozarks migrated from southern Appalachia, Ozark is not âAppalachia West,â for the flavor of Ozark culture is rare and particular. This book is an expression of that lasting distinctiveness. The folklife of the home (its foodways, crafts, and folkways), of the workplace (its architecture and its crafts), of Ozark leisure (music, dance, folksongs, ballads, games, and narratives) are given special attention here so that the singular nature of life in Ozark country can be revealed as an ongoing tradition rather than a static preservation. In the Ozark region, perhaps as in no other place in America, the essential character of the people is stamped with this combination of what is past and what is present. W. K. McNeil (deceased) was a folklorist at the Ozark Folk Center. He wrote and edited many books about folklore in the southern United States.

Ozark Country (Folklife in the South Series)

Univ Pr of Mississippi

Ozark Country by W. K. McNeil A stimulating encounter with the vigorous mountain culture and enduring folklife of the Ozarks This study of folklife in the Ozarks surveys one of America’s most fascinating regions and shows its distinctive cultural imprint. The living heritage of Ozark country is detailed here beside the history of its earliest settlements and its unique folkways. Although many who pioneered in the Ozarks migrated from southern Appalachia, Ozark is not “Appalachia West,” for the flavor of Ozark culture is rare and particular. This book is an expression of that lasting distinctiveness. The folklife of the home (its foodways, crafts, and folkways), of the workplace (its architecture and its crafts), of Ozark leisure (music, dance, folksongs, ballads, games, and narratives) are given special attention here so that the singular nature of life in Ozark country can be revealed as an ongoing tradition rather than a static preservation. In the Ozark region, perhaps as in no other place in America, the essential character of the people is stamped with this combination of what is past and what is present. W. K. McNeil (deceased) was a folklorist at the Ozark Folk Center. He wrote and edited many books about folklore in the southern United States.

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

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