The Stories We Tell
Table of Contents
Contents
General Introductions
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
Oregon as Paradise
Abraham "Oregon" Smith in the "Land of Milk and Honey"
Oregon Suits Me
Oregon Land
South Wind Marries Ocean's Daughter
Origins of
Webfoot
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
Alsea Girls
Oregon's Healthy Climate
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
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
The Sun's Myth
Gishgiu's Escape
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
History and the Carnation Man
Wong Sam's Phrase Book
Does Anyone Speak Finnish Here?
When Basque Herders First Arrived in the Owyhee Region
Dad's Embarrassment
How Masuo Yasui Found Hood River
Golden America
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
Neshukulayloo
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
Keiger 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
Bill Brown
Aaron Meier and the Darning Needle
Lou Southworth of Waldport
Jack Dalton Pays His Bill
Old Blue
The Ballad of Archie Brown
Tales of Hunting and Fishing
A Hunter's First Kill
The Redwood Canoe
The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit
Coyote and the Talking Fish Trap
Goose Hunting Near McMinnville, Fishing at Meadow Lake
The Biggest Catch
Boiled Owl
A Good Hunting Dog
The Smartest Hunting Dog
A Remarkable Shot
Another Remarkable Shot
A City Hunter
The Deer Hunter
Portland Hunters
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
Coyote the Eye-Juggler
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
At Work in Oregon
Planting Rhymes
Three Scythe Songs from Pioneer Oregon
John Alexander
The Bib Combine
Dry Land Farming Lexicon
The Lane County Bachelor
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
Cowboy Vernacular
Jesse Stahl's Famous Ride
The Strawberry Roan
A Bear Tale
Mongo
Corrido del Difunto Nabor, Ballad of the Deceased Nabor
Why a Cowboy Left Home
The Ballad of Pete Orman
Loggers' Lore and Initiation Customs
A Bucket of Choker Holes
The Axe Man's Test
The Swede and the Cant Hook
Walkaway
A New Bride in Camp
Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan's Logging at Shoreacres
Paul's Great Auction
The Sad Ending of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox
Bunkhouse Cussing
Selections from the Loggers' Lexicon
More Loggers' Jargon
The Wobbly Language
Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks
Ode to the Spotted Owl
Miners' Nicknames and Nomenclature
Hardrock
Two-Week Tommy, Walk Away Willy, 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
The Naming of Fishboats
Fishermen's Folk Speech
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'unaqa and the Forest Fire
Bigfoots Galore
Reports on the Sasquatch in the 1860s
Wild Man Helps Himself to Elk Meat
Big,foot, Our Contemporary
The Man Who Lived with Thunder Bird
The Woman Who Swallowed a Snake
The Girl Who Swallowed a Pearl
Spirits, Corpses, Haunted Places
Lulu'laidi
The Ghosts at Mosquito Flats
The Stick Indians
Old Man Donovan's Wake
The Corpse and the Pickles
Petrified Bodied West and East
The Petrification of Mrs. Confer
The Petrified Girl of Hay Creek
A Stone Man at Ashwood
Haunted Skookum Lake
Amhuluk, the Skookum of the Lake
The Creaking Mantel
The Rocking Cradle
La Lorona, The Crying Woman
El Troquero y la Joven, The Trucker and the Young Girl
Lavender
Family Matters
Baby-land
Babes in the Woods
Joobering
Counting Out Rhymes
A Clackamas Girls' Game
Klamath String Figures
Old Mr. Fox
Little Raccoon and His Grandmother
Wild Woman Ate Children
Bloody Fingers
Golden Arm
The Boyfriend's Death
The Three Murderer Sons
Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There
The Legend of the Magpies
The Girl Who Married a Sea Otter
Split-His-Own-Head
The Two Brothers
The Earring Story
The First Family
Husbands, Wives, Lovers
Ang Toy and Farm Pei
The Honorable Milt
Niggedy Naggedy
There Was an Old Woman in Trenton
"That's How She Got Him on the Train"
The Quarrel at Kirk Canyon
The Clever Wife
Coyote Falls in Love and Creates Crater Lake
New Old Stories
Christianity in Chinook Jargon
The Lord's Prayer in Jargon
Old Man Daniel
Munata'lkni, or the Devil
White Men Are Snakes
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
The Sycan Barn
Buckskin
How It All Began
Tututni Genesis
Bibliography
Glossary of folk literature genres
Copyright Acknowledgements
Index
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