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288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Mike Fink in History, Legend, and Story -- Scout at fort pitt and in the Indian country -- Keelboatman on western waterways -- Trapper and mountain man in the rockies -- oral tradition and printed stories -- Folklorish aspects -- Literary aspects -- The growth of An American Legend -- The last of the boatmen (1828), by Morgan Neville -- Mike Fink: the last of the boatmen (1829) -- Crockett almanack stories (1837, 1839) -- The disgraced scalp-lock (1842), by T.B. Thorpe -- Letter to the "western general advertiser" from "k" (1845) -- Trimming a darky's heel (1847), by John S. Robb -- Mike Fink: "the last of the boatmen" (1847), by Joseph M. Field -- Lige Shattuck's reminiscence of Mike Fink (1848) -- Mike Fink: a legend of the Ohio (1848), by Emerson Bennett -- Crockett almanac stories (1850-53) -- rev. Peter Cartwright, jocose preacher (1850) -- Deacon Smith's bull (1851), by Scroggins -- Mike's practical jokes (1852), by Ben Cassedy -- Jack Pierce's victory (1874?), by Menra Hopewell -- Mike Fink - last of the flatboatmen (1883), by Colonel Frank Triplett -- Some recently published stories about Mike Fink (1950-56), by Colonel Henry Shoemaker -- A Missouri superstition (1951), by Vance Randolph -- Two stories about Mike Fink (1956), by Julian Lee Rayford -- Accounts of Mike Fink's death -- from Morgan Neville, "the last of the boatmen" (1828) -- from "Mike Fink: the last of the boatmen" (1829) -- from "Mike, the Ohio boatman" (1837) -- William T. Porter, "to correspondents" (1842) -- Joseph M. Field, "the death of Mike Fink" (1844) -- from Charles Cist, "the last of the girtys" (1845) -- from Friedrich Gerstäcker, "flatbootmen" (1847) -- from J.W. Abert, report of an examination of New Mexico (1848) -- from Emerson Bennett, "Mike Fink, a legend of the Ohio" (1848) -- from T.B. Thorpe, "remembrances of the Mississippi" (1855) -- from James T. Lloyd, "Lloyd's steamboat directory" (1856) -- from Richard Edwards and M. Hopewell, "Edwards' great west" (1860) -- from James Haley White, "early days in St. Louis" (ca. 1882) -- Bibliography -- original sources and reprints -- secondary sources. |
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Fink, Mike, 1770-1823.
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Fink, Mike, 1770-1823
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Fink, Mike, 1770-1823? (OCoLC)fst00001255
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Blair, Walter, 1900-1992, editor.
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Meine, Franklin J., 1896-1968, editor.
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