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9781493025350 | Globe Pequot Pr, October 1, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top “100 Books that Shaped America,” this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author’s time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer’s Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress.
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9780883940495 | Promontory, May 28, 2006, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: Collection of personal narratives, anecdotes, tall tales, and fables convey the courage, imagination, and humor of the Civil War era
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9780803261723 | Bison Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Stories of bravery, humor, and faith reflect the emotions and attitudes of freedmen, women, deserters, patriots, and resisters towards the war, as well as their opinions of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E.
Product Description: This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.A. Botkin, is comprised of the traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth, for so long that they seem to have a life of their own...read more
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9781560005094, titled "The American People: Stories, Legends, Tales, Traditions and Songs" | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, January 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.
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9781560009849 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.
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9780385311151, titled "Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery" | Reprint edition (Delta, February 1, 1994), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Interviews with former slaves document the experience of slavery and the adjustments and challenges of freedom
9780820310305, titled "Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery" | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Interviews with ex-slaves document the experience of slavery and the adjustments and challenges of freedom
9780226067230 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: n the 1930's, the last decade when many men and women who were born under slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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9780883656167 | Galahad Books, May 1, 1992, cover price $8.98 | About this edition: Discusses the origins and classification of anecdotes and explains the date, source, and meaning for over 400 traditional and popular anecdotes from around the country
Product Description: B. A. Botkin was one of the greatest American folklorists. With his students he crisscrossed the country to record the stories we tell one another. From the most enduring of American events, the Civil War, come tales of bravery, cunning, pathos, humor, and faith...read more
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9780884118602 | Amereon Ltd, August 1, 1991, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: B.
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9780517052945 | Revised edition (Bonanza Books, February 1, 1991), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Folklore from one of the most colorful periods of American history: anecdotes, tall tales, yarns, humor, local legends, and traditions.
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9780517168684 | Reprint edition (Bonanza Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $10.99
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9780517679777 | Reprint edition (Outlet, March 1, 1989), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Folktales, songs, and local legends provide a portrait of the Yankee character and traditions
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9780517641361 | Deluxe edition (Random House Value Pub, August 1, 1987), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: An anthology of anecdotes, tall tales, yarns, legends, stories, ballads and folksongs of the Great Plains and Far West, drawn from oral and printed sources and arranged chronologically and geographically
9780517507674 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1940, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of legends, songs, recipes, and anecdotes expressing the spirit of the South from colonial times
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9780517641378 | Deluxe edition (Random House Value Pub, August 1, 1987), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: More than five hundred stories and thirty songs tell much about the colorful history of the river and the ways of the river folk
9780517246054 | Reprint edition (Random House Value Pub, December 1, 1984), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: More than five hundred stories and thirty songs tell much about the colorful history of the river and the ways of the river folk
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9780837193106 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 1, 1976, cover price $28.75
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9780837193120 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1954, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Book by
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