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  • "Around the Logging Camp Fire" from an article in the Idaho Semi-Weekly, (Idaho City, ID), May 22, 1877.
  • "Stories on the River Penobscot" from "Editorial Comment" in Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), February 25, 1925.
  • "The Foot Snake," by Harry Barnet, adapted from "Folklore and Tradition That Linger in the Ohio River Valley" in the Washington Herald (Washington, D.C.), May 22, 1921.
  • "Whipping his Weight" adapted from a story published in the Princeton Union, May 7, 1896. First published in the Washington Star.
  • "The Wampus Cat" adapted from an article in The Jackson Herald (Jackson, MO), February 20, 1908.
  • "The Wolves" from the The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8 (1861), p. 705-707.
  • "The Guyustucus" adapted from "Raising the Wind" in The Yazoo Democrat (Yazoo City, MS), November 12, 1845.
  • "Bearing the Bear Bare" adapted from "A Bear Will Attack a Man" published in the The Democratic Banner (Mt. Venon, OH), February 8, 1916.
  • "Earl Dunraven's Ghost Story" adapted from the Daily Cairo Bulletin (Cairo, IL), February 5, 1881.
  • "Perils of the Woods" adapted from the Republican News Item (Laport, PA), October 28, 1909.
  • "The You've Got 'em" from the Adair County News (Columbia, KY), January 5, 1910.
  • "The Alligator and the boots" from St. Johns Herald and Apache News (St. Johns, Apache Co., AZ), October 28, 1909.
  • "Tommy-Knockers of the Mines" from "Ghosts in Deep Mines" in the Martinsburg Herald (Martinsburg, WV), August 18, 1906.
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  • "Green Gowrow Killed in Searcy County" from the Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), January 31, 1897. Newspapers.com
  • "The Blue Racer" from the McCook Tribune (McCook, NE), April 7, 1905.
  • "The Spotted Hodag" from the Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids, WI) published in parts throughout 1896.
  • "Snow Snakes in Minnesota" from the The Leavenworth Echo (Leavenworth, WA), January 23, 1920.
  • "The Joint Snake" from "Joint Snake Makes Good Watch Dog" in the Evening Journal (Wilmington, DL), September 21, 1917.
  • "Logger Talk" from "Logger's Queer Language" in Warren Sheaf (Warren, Marshall County, MN), October 12, 1905.
  • "The Onivora" from the Houston Daily Post (Houston, TX), March 15, 1896.


All articles obtained through Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress unless otherwise stated.
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