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Legends, Myths & Campfire Tales of

              the  American West

 

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From the beginning of time, people have told stories, relegating their friends and families with tales of adventure, hard times, interesting people, frightening experiences and everyday life. Sometimes these were truths, others exaggerations, and occasionally nothing more than tall tales. The more interesting of these narratives were passed around from friend to friend and from father to son, sometimes altering along the way or growing in strength to the point that they became legends, folklore, or questionable myths. Oral history, proverbs, jokes, and popular beliefs were interwoven into music, dance, cultures, and sometimes even into history itself. 

 

 

Around the campfire

Around the campfire.

 

The Old West is filled with folklore, Native American mythology, and real truths that make for wonderful campfire tales. In these stories, much like earlier European, Greek and Roman tales, the accounts can often be only be guessed at, as to whether they are fact or fiction, but they continue to make the rounds of new generations.

 

In these Old West legends, around the campfire or a roaring hearth can be heard the approach of galloping horses, the whispers of phantoms in ghost towns, the far-off sounds of pistols blazing,  and the sighing moans of the winds drifting through the ancient trees of hunting, mining, and cowboy camps.

 

 

Myths, Legends and Folklore

The Ark On Superstition Mountains

Bad Medicine

Banshee Of The Bad Lands

Bear Lake Utah Sea Monster

Besieged By Starvation

Boggy Creek Monster

The Broad House

Cryptozoology And Bigfoot

The Death Ship of the Platte River

The Death Waltz

Devil's Promenade & the Hornet Spook Light

The Division of Two Tribes

El Muerto - The Headless One of South Texas

The Flood At Santa Fe

Ghosts Of The National Capitol

The Governor's Right Eye

How The Crime Was Revealed - A Missouri Legend

Hunger Valley

Jackalopes in Wyoming - Myth or Reality?

In A Trapper's Bivouac

Las Brujas (The Witches) of Seville

La Llorona - The Weeping Woman

Legends, Myths & Tales of the Native Americans

Little People of Wyoming & the Pedro Mountain Mummy

The Lost Trail

A Man With Two Lives

Over the Divide

The Passing Of Peg-Leg

Pecos Bill - A Legend of the American West

The Phantom Train of Marshall Pass

Rangering

Riders of the Desert

The River of Lost Souls

The Salt Witch of the Nebraska Plains

The Spook Of Misery Hill

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St. Louis Area Legends & Folklore

Storied Waters of Oregon

Tamanous Of Tacoma

Tom Cypher's Phantom Engine

Tommyknockers of the Western Mines

The Voyager Of Whulge

White River Monster

The Yellowstone Tragedy

 

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Ghostly Legends

Legends, Myths & Tales of the Native Americans

 

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