Harold Felton

Harold William Felton (April 1, 1902 – July 12, 1991) was an American writer and folklorist, an author of many children's books and books of American tall tales, among others.^[1]

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After graduation, Felton practiced law in Omaha for 5 years and then worked at the Internal Revenue Service until retirement (1933–1970). On 23 August 1933 he married Hildegard (Helen) Kessler. Later the Felton's moved to Manhattan, New York City.^[1]

Books

• Bowleg Bill; Seagoing Cowpuncher. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1957.
• (With Edward S. Breck) Cowboy Jamboree: Western Songs and Lore. New York, Knopf, 1951.
• Fire Fightin' Mose. New York, Knopf, 1955.
  • Big Mose, Hero Fireman, 1969
• John Henry and His Hammer. New York, Knopf, [c1950].
• (With Richard Bennett) Legends of Paul Bunyan. New York, A. A. Knopf, 1947.
• Lemuel Haynes. Falls Village, CT, Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society, 1989.
• Mike Fink, Best of the Keelboatmen. New York, Dodd, Mead, [1960].
• True Tall Tales of Stormalong: Sailor of the Seven Seas,1968
• New Tall Tales of Pecos Bill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, [1958].
• Pecos Bill, Texas Cowpuncher. New York, Knopf, [c1949].
• Pecos Bill and the Mustang, 1965
• Uriah Phillips Levy
  . New York, Dodd, Mead, [c1978].
• (With Ed Grant) The World's Most Truthful Man; Tales Told by Ed Grant in Maine. New York, Dodd, Mead, [c1961].
• Nancy Ward, Cherokee
• Ely S. Parker, spokesman for the Senecas
• Canaan: A small New England town during the American Revolutionary War
• Gib Morgan, oil driller
• James Weldon Johnson
• Mumbet: The Story of Elizabeth Freeman
• Deborah Sampson: Soldier of the Revolution
• Jim Beckwourth, Negro mountain man
• Sergeant O'Keefe and his mule Balaam
• Edward Rose; Negro trail blazer
• William Phips and the treasure Ship
• A Horse Named Justin Morgan

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