At work in Oregon. Planting rhymes
Three scythe songs from pioneer Oregon
Oregon cowboys and buckaroos: How to get along ; The work week on a ranch ; Grant County cattlemen ; Buckaroo geography ; Harney County strawberries ; John Porter's story about a sheepman on his range
Jesse Stahl's famous ride
Corrido del difunto Nabor, ballad of the deceased Nabor
Loggers' lore and initiation customs: A bucket of choker holes ; The axe man's test ; The Swede and the cant hook
Paul Bunyan: Paul Bunyan's logging at Shoreacres ; Paul's great auction ; The sad ending of Paul Bunyan's blue ox
Selections from the loggers' lexicon
Fifty thousand lumberjacks
Miners' nicknames and nomenclature: Hardrock ; Two-Week Tommy, Walk Away Willie, and Seldom-Seen Charley ; Digsblaster ; Digmore ; Cousin Jacks ; Tommy Knockers
One of Sumpter's well-known miners
The ghosts of Chinese and Black miners of Elk Creek
The ballad of the Territorial Road
Women invade the shipyards
Coyote and other tricksters. Wasco Coyote cycle: Coyote frees the fish ; Coyote and the mouthless man ; The first pregnancy ; Coyote meets Tsagiglalal ; Coyote and Eagle go to the land of the dead
South Wind loses his eyes and gets new ones
Coyote and the strawberries
Fernando, a Basque trickster: Fernando and the priest's pig ; The priest invites Fernando to dinner ; Fernando and the platter of meat ; Fernando's sister dies.
Family matters. Baby-land
Little Raccoon and his grandmother
Seal and her younger brother lived there
The legend of the magpies
The girl who married a sea otter
First contacts and other encounters. The first ship comes to Clatsop
The Nez Perce meet Lewis and Clark
"Goldilocks on the Oregon Trail": Nellie Jane Earp ; Moses Eads's red-headed daughter ; Mary Walker, a brave pioneer girl
A sampling of Chinook jargon
Gishgiu and the sugar thief
Indians speculate on white ladies' bustles
An encounter between miners and Indians
The origin of horses in Oregon
Bill McBride's race horse
The joke was on the Whites in Pendleton
Histo and the carnation man
Does anyone speak Finnish here?
When Basque herders first arrived in the Owyhee region
How Masuo Yasui found Hood River
How it all began. Tututni genesis. Bibliography
Glossary of folk literature genres
Husbands, wives, lovers. Ang Toy and Farm Pei
There was an old woman in Trenton
"That's how she got him on the train"
The quarrel at Kirk Canyon
Coyote falls in love and creates Crater Lake.
Introduction: The stories we tell. This place is home. Creation of the Klamath Country
Origin of Black Butte, Medicine Rock, Eagle Rock, and Mt. Jefferson
Abraham "Oregon" Smith in the "land of milk and honey"
South Wind marries Ocean's daughter
About the word "Oregon": The mystery of its origin ; "Oregon" in the vernacular ; "Oregon" in the woods ; "Oregon" on horseback
The girl with the striped stockings
Getting the wash done Oregon style
Oregon sayings, West and East
Reub Long on the Oregon desert
Southeastern Oregon weather
Valley rabbit and mountain rabbit.
Lost treasures. The Neahkanie Mountain treasure: The pirates at Neahkanie ; Buried treasure from a Spanish galleon ; An Indian account ; The treasure ship ; A Portuguese shipwreck
The lost Blue Bucket Mine
The treasure at Columbia City
Gold found and lost near Canyon City
Jim Polk leads a gold expedition.
Monsters, snakes, fabulous creatures. Coyote and the swallowing monster
Sea serpent in the Illinois River
The origin of Face Rock at Bandon
At'unaqu and the forest fire
Bigfoots galore: Reports on the sasquatch in the 1860s ; Wild man helps himself to elk meat ; Bigfoot, our contemporary
The man who lived with Thunder Bird
The woman who swallowed a snake
The girl who swallowed a pearl.
New old stories. Christianity in Chinook jargon: The Lord's prayer in jargon ; Old Man Daniel
Munata'lkni, or the devil
Laptiss'an and the seven-headed monster
Coyote and the anthropologist
A prophecy about Coyote and the people of the lake
The coyote, the bear, and the moon
Oregon's folk heroes and characters. Chiloquin
How Fish-Hawk raided the Sioux
Patrick Dooney and the bear Dooneys: The bear Dooneys ; Pat Dooney beats the Russians
The revenge against the sky people
Black Harris and the putrefied forest
Hathaway Jones, Rogue River Munchhausen: Hathaway's father builds a fireplace ; Hathaway's own fireplace ; Hathaway's great strength ; Packing a bear home ; Hathaway's marvelous hunt ; Hathaway shoots his old mare ; Shooting geese ; The black powder bullet ; A nimble mule ; Hathaway mixes up his mules
Benjamin Franklin "Huckleberry" Finn: Finn upholds his reputation as a liar ; Moving Finn rock ; Trapped in a honey tree ; Caught in a stump ; Making turpentine ; Finn and the muzzle loader ; The big fish ; The "Kalarup" gun ; Finn and the game warden
Tebo Ortego, vaquero munchhausen: Kiger Gorge ; Tebo's mosquito stories ; Tebo's pet fish ; Birds freeze in the lake ; The fast palomino stallion ; The horses have a rodeo ; A night at Buena Vista
Aaron Meier and the darning needle
Lou Southworth of Waldport
Jack Dalton pays his bill
The ballad of Archie Brown.
Spirits, corpses, haunted places. Lulu'laidi
The ghosts at Mosquito Flats
The corpse and the pickles
Petrified bodies West and East: The petrification of Mrs. Confer ; A petrified girl of Hay Creek ; A stone man at Ashford
Amhuluk, the Skookum of the lake
La Llorona, the crying woman
El troquero y la joven, The trucker and the young girl.
Tales of hunting and fishing. A hunter's first kill
The hunter who had an elk for a guardian spirit
Coyote and the talking fish trap
Goose hunting near McMinnville, fishing at Meadow Lake