American Folklore

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History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees 4.41 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4.06 avg rating β€” 71,348 ratings
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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires 3.61 avg rating β€” 344 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 3.92 avg rating β€” 289,245 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places 3.74 avg rating β€” 9,983 ratings
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Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values through Storytelling
Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture and Values through Storytelling 4.20 avg rating β€” 125 ratings
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Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions 3.84 avg rating β€” 112 ratings
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston 3.71 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends 3.91 avg rating β€” 425 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating β€” 3,470 ratings
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Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection 3.55 avg rating β€” 2,605 ratings
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American Indian Myths and Legends
American Indian Myths and Legends 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,376 ratings
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The Foxfire Book of Simple Living: Celebrating Fifty Years of Listenin', Laughin', and Learnin' (Foxfire Series)
The Foxfire Book of Simple Living: Celebrating Fifty Years of Listenin', Laughin', and Learnin' (Foxfire Series) 4.21 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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Weird New England: Your Travel Guide to New England's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Weird New England: Your Travel Guide to New England's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets 4.02 avg rating β€” 313 ratings
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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings 3.74 avg rating β€” 670 ratings
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American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America 3.48 avg rating β€” 923 ratings
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A Treasury of American Folklore
A Treasury of American Folklore 4.21 avg rating β€” 76 ratings
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Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival 4.08 avg rating β€” 17,688 ratings
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American Indian Trickster Tales
American Indian Trickster Tales 3.85 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
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Folklore on the American Land
Folklore on the American Land 3.69 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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American Indian Stories
American Indian Stories 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,894 ratings
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Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America
Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America 3.98 avg rating β€” 234 ratings
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Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales 3.83 avg rating β€” 324 ratings
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Mules and Men
Mules and Men 4.10 avg rating β€” 6,334 ratings
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.30 avg rating β€” 1,675 ratings
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Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series)
Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series) 4.40 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana 3.99 avg rating β€” 418 ratings
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The Jack Tales
The Jack Tales 4.21 avg rating β€” 403 ratings
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A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore
A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore 3.92 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Afro-American Folktales
Afro-American Folktales 3.97 avg rating β€” 117 ratings
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The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural 3.92 avg rating β€” 2,180 ratings
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Living Stories of the Cherokee
Living Stories of the Cherokee 4.36 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
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Ozark Magic and Folklore
Ozark Magic and Folklore 4.02 avg rating β€” 283 ratings
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In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories 4.30 avg rating β€” 5,429 ratings
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The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee
The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee 4.33 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry
Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry 3.82 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales 4.39 avg rating β€” 619 ratings
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Folklore: A Study and Research Guide
Folklore: A Study and Research Guide liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Fearsome Creatures Of The Lumberwoods: With A Few Desert And Mountain Beasts
Fearsome Creatures Of The Lumberwoods: With A Few Desert And Mountain Beasts 3.89 avg rating β€” 93 ratings
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Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People
Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People 3.85 avg rating β€” 134 ratings
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Mike Fink
Mike Fink 2.61 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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The Witch of the Monongahela: Folk Magic in Early Western Pennsylvania
The Witch of the Monongahela: Folk Magic in Early Western Pennsylvania 3.75 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends 3.60 avg rating β€” 444 ratings
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Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman
Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman 4.21 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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The Ghosts of Nantucket: 23 True Accounts
The Ghosts of Nantucket: 23 True Accounts 3.75 avg rating β€” 173 ratings
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Mysterious beasties of the northwoods : creatures from North American folklore
Mysterious beasties of the northwoods : creatures from North American folklore 3.75 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Tales from the Cloud Walking Country
Tales from the Cloud Walking Country 4.17 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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The New England Grimpendium
The New England Grimpendium 3.77 avg rating β€” 191 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore
Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore 3.75 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales
Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales 4.18 avg rating β€” 128 ratings
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How Kate Warne Saved President Lincoln: The Story Behind the Nation's First Woman Detective
How Kate Warne Saved President Lincoln: The Story Behind the Nation's First Woman Detective 3.88 avg rating β€” 185 ratings
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts 3.91 avg rating β€” 1,062 ratings
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Florida's Ghostly Legends And Haunted Folklore: Volume One: South And Central Florida (Volume 1)
Florida's Ghostly Legends And Haunted Folklore: Volume One: South And Central Florida (Volume 1) 3.73 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Stories of Lost Israel in Folklore
Stories of Lost Israel in Folklore really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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First Dog Fala
First Dog Fala 4.01 avg rating β€” 77 ratings
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,319 ratings
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FOLKLORE IN AMERICA
FOLKLORE IN AMERICA 3.22 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors
Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors 3.92 avg rating β€” 315 ratings
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More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4.11 avg rating β€” 20,127 ratings
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Warrior Mountains Folklore
Warrior Mountains Folklore 4.60 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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When Abraham Talked to the Trees
When Abraham Talked to the Trees 3.84 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
The Witches: Salem, 1692 3.25 avg rating β€” 23,706 ratings
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Joel Chandler Harris, Folklorist
Joel Chandler Harris, Folklorist 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries
Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries 3.90 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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More Tales to Chill Your Bones
More Tales to Chill Your Bones 4.15 avg rating β€” 17,588 ratings
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The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 3.81 avg rating β€” 624 ratings
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Febold Feboldson, the Fix-It Farmer
Febold Feboldson, the Fix-It Farmer 3.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials 3.43 avg rating β€” 2,158 ratings
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Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History and Legends, Unearthed and Explored
Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History and Legends, Unearthed and Explored 4.04 avg rating β€” 85 ratings
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Old Stormalong, the Seafaring Sailor
Old Stormalong, the Seafaring Sailor it was ok 2.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,083 ratings
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Legends and Tales of the American West
Legends and Tales of the American West 3.69 avg rating β€” 68 ratings
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Sidewalks of America: Folklore, Legends, Sagas, Traditions, Customs, Songs, Stories and Sayings of City Folk
Sidewalks of America: Folklore, Legends, Sagas, Traditions, Customs, Songs, Stories and Sayings of City Folk really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating β€” 4,938 ratings
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Better Known as Johnny Appleseed
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed 3.10 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Bluenose Magic
Bluenose Magic 4.06 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Tar Heel Ghosts
Tar Heel Ghosts 3.63 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating β€” 167,148 ratings
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Native American Animal Stories
Native American Animal Stories 4.17 avg rating β€” 175 ratings
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True Legends
True Legends 4.32 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore
A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore 4.15 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Spooky South: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
Spooky South: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore 3.56 avg rating β€” 198 ratings
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The Loblolly book: Water witching, wild hog hunting, home remedies, grandma's moral tales, and other affairs of plain Texas living
The Loblolly book: Water witching, wild hog hunting, home remedies, grandma's moral tales, and other affairs of plain Texas living 2.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State
Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State 3.83 avg rating β€” 473 ratings
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Stagger Lee
Stagger Lee 3.67 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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Haunted Heartland (Haunted America, #2)
Haunted Heartland (Haunted America, #2) 3.92 avg rating β€” 2,417 ratings
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Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies 3.82 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive 4.42 avg rating β€” 2,568 ratings
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The Keepers: Mountain Folk Holding on to Old Skills and Talents
The Keepers: Mountain Folk Holding on to Old Skills and Talents 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men 3.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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A Treasury of Georgia Folklore
A Treasury of Georgia Folklore 3.70 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States 3.65 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books)
Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.09 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Jack Always Seeks His Fortune: Authentic Appalachian Jack Tales
Jack Always Seeks His Fortune: Authentic Appalachian Jack Tales 4.31 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction
The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction 3.58 avg rating β€” 123 ratings
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American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1551)
American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1551) 3.36 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites
The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites 3.75 avg rating β€” 213 ratings
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Moonshine!: Recipes * Tall Tales * Drinking Songs * Historical Stuff * Knee-Slappers * How to Make It * How to Drink It * Pleasin the Law * Recoverin the Next Day
Moonshine!: Recipes * Tall Tales * Drinking Songs * Historical Stuff * Knee-Slappers * How to Make It * How to Drink It * Pleasin the Law * Recoverin the Next Day 3.86 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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