A Treasury of Southern Folklore: The Stories, Legends, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the People of the South

xxiv, 776 pp. There are more than 500 stories and more than 75 folksongs, presenting for the first time the full cast of characters of the amazingly varied South--heroes like Patrick Henry, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Stonewall Jackson and the almost godlike Robert E. Lee; outlaws and pirates like Murrell, Jean Lafitte and Blackbeard; poor whites, Crackers, slaves, Cajuns, Gullahs, Seminoles, Cherokees, raftsmen, pioneers and priests and hellfire-and-damnation preachers, gamblers, roustabouts, coonjiners, black minstrels, granny-women, cotton pickers and oyster shuckers, colonels, bells and beaux. You will find in this book rare accounts of 'coon hounds, foxhounds, horse races and steamboat races, cock fights, feuds and duels, voodoo and black magic, folk sayings and ballads, recipes for old-time dishes and drinks--and what the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina. ...encompasses, besides the eleven states of the old Confederacy--Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, (East) Texas, and Virginia--the border states of Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and (Eastern) Oklahoma, and touches on portions of Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.