Tales from a new Republic -- Puerto Rico : the oldest depository of American tales -- Tales from the Hispanic Southwest -- Isleño tales from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana -- Cape Verde tales from New England -- Louisiana Creole tales -- Cajun tales -- Tales from the Missouri French -- From Tidewater to Texas : the southern lowland tradition -- African American tales of the rural South and the urban North -- Tales from the coastal Gullah tradition -- The southern mountains I : from the Blue Ridge to the Ozarks -- The southern mountains II : The Hicks-Harmon Beech Mountain tradition -- German traditions in Pennsylvania -- The Irish-American tale tradition -- Tales from other communities, ethnic, regional, occupational, and familial -- European tales in Native American traditions -- Betty Carriveau Sherman and her father's tales.