Books with author Clifton Johnson

The books in this series of Bedtime Wonder Tales are made up of favorite stories from the folklore of all nations. Such stories are particularly enjoyed by children from four to twelve years of age. As here told they are free from the savagery, distressing details, and excessive pathos which mar many of the tales in the form that they have come down to us from a barbaric past. But there has been no sacrifice of the simplicity and humor and sweetness that give them perennial charm. The book includes the following stories: (1) Bluebeard, (2) The Blood-Stained Key, (3) A Goblin in a Bottle, (4) A Scholar’s Fortune, (5) Yallery Brown, (6) A Troublesome Helper, (7) The Little Jackal, (8) The Blind Ogre, (9) Seven Doves, (10) Time and His Mother, (11) Blockhead Hans, (12) The Rival Suitors, (13) Cunning Tom, (14) A Miser’s Hired Man, (15) The Boy in a Peach, (16) A Warrior’s Helpers, (17) The Island of Demons, (18) Andrew Coffey, and (19) Careless Mr. Buzzard. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories. This edition is amply illustrated.

Poems my children love best of allby Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940, ed; Bassett, Mary R; Hammell, WillPublication date 1919,c1917Topics Children's poetryPublisher New York : Lloyd Adams NobleCollection newyorkpubliclibrary; iacl; americanaDigitizing sponsor MSNContributor New York Public LibraryLanguage EnglishBookplateleaf 0004Camera Canon 5DExternal-identifier urn:oclc:record:1050813335Foldoutcount 0Identifier poemsmychildrenl00johnIdentifier-ark ark:/13960/t39022b1z

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History through the lens of the tall tale. This book is an entertaining homespun romp through the Rocky Mountains area. As the author, Clifton Johnson, travels through the States comprising the Rocky Mountains in the early 1900’s, he meets the people living there and listens to their stories. As we listen to their stories, we are drawn into a rich period of American history. ― The black and white photographs present a haunting picture of life in the American West in the early 1900’s. ― “Some curious things happen here in connection with law and order. I recall one Texas judge in a thinly settled district who kept a saloon and held court in the same room. Once a dead man was found in the vicinity with forty dollars and a revolver in his pockets, and the judge fined him the forty dollars for carrying the gun." ― This illustrated eBook edition of the 1910 original has been carefully edited for scanning and spelling errors, and is as true to the original as possible. The original spellings of the period have been left intact. Please note that this book contains a lot of colloquial language...it’s not bad spelling, it’s the way they talked. Those who complain that OCR creates errors simply have not taken the time to read and edit every word as we have. [EDB Pubs]

Introductory NoteLIKE its predecessors, this volume concerns itself especially with country life. To the traveller, no life is more interesting, and yet there is none with which it is so difficult to get into close and unconventional contact. Ordinarily, we get only casual glimpses. For this reason I have wandered much on country roads and lodged most of the time with the farm families or at the village hotels. In both text and pictures I have tried to show actual life and nature as I saw them in characteristic and interesting sections from one end to the other of the vast valley.The volumes in this series are often consulted by persons who are planning pleasure tours. To make the books more helpful in this respect, I have appended to each chapter a note containing suggestions for intending travellers. With the aid of these notes, I think one can readily decide what regions one would like particularly to see, and know how to see such regions with the most comfort and facility.CLIFTON JOHNSON.Highways and Byways of the Mississippi ValleyTHE CITY BEHIND THE LEVEETHE country in and about New Orleans, if it was in a state of nature, would be mostly marshland. When it was first settled, the cabins of the future metropolis stood among weeds and willows and rank swamp growths, and the hamlet was infested with mosquitoes, snakes, frogs, and alligators. Every time the Mississippi was in flood, the water came creeping over the land, and it was not long before the inhabitants began to bank out the ravaging river and attempt to drain away the surplus moisture of the soil. As the city grew, the levee was extended and strengthened, and that great earthen rampart along the water front is to-day the community's chief dependence for health and for protection against the vast destruction that would be wrought by the constantly recurring floods. Whenever the water is up, the city lies lower than the river level, and if the stream gets so high that it threatens to wash over the crest of the embankment,

The Land of Heather by Clifton Johnson is an American account of the various sights and sounds of Scotland. Revolving around the heather plant that is abundantly found across the Scottish lands, Johnson opens a window into the lives and times of the Scottish working class and farmers among various others. He draws from various sources including natural history, village gossip and common lore and stories revolving around the various places covered in this work. The Land of Heather opens with an introductory note by the author which discusses the importance of heather, which although found all across Britain and most parts of Europe, had a special position in Scotland. The essence of the book is found in the association of heather in the rich literature and culture of the region. In describing the attributes of heather, Johnson brings out the inherent characteristics of the Scottish people. Spread across fourteen chapters, the work covers different locations including the Isle of Mull, Galloway and various Lochs and Bens, among others. Johnson painstakingly illustrates in detail the ways of artisans, farmers and the working class. The book is replete with numerous photographs capturing the different moods and hues of the Scottish heartlands. Johnson's narrative in The Land of Heather is in parts informative and in parts humorous but at its core, this is a book for the general reader looking for an honest and beautifully woven emotive insight in to the hearts of the Scottish people.

Excerpt from What They Say in New England: A Book of Signs, Sayings, and SuperstitionsPerhaps no class is more addicted to sign-telling and belief in Signs than those who have emigrated to this coun try in comparatively recent years. It is their children at the schools who are most apt to keep the rest posted as to what means what, and as to when things portend disaster.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.