Book Description
In 1926 the author began teaching at the mountain settlement school on Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky where she began researching and collecting folktales whose origins could be traced to Germany, Ireland and Scotland. She traveled to remote areas that could not be reached by outside world except by foot, horseback, or jolt wagon in order to transcribe the tales told by old-time storytellers along with the history they ascribed to the tales. This dissertation was presented as the first of five volumes. The tales in this volume were collected in Letcher County from 1927-1934.
