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- ↑ "All of America's folk heroes, in one map", a 1946 map by cartoonist William Gropper, shown at Vox
- ↑ Marshall Fishwick, Popular Culture in a New Age, p.44
- ↑ Man rides two-ton tuna. herds other fish. New England: Botkin American 192-204. 1944. Dorson American Scholar 10: 390-91. 1941 (Bowleg Bill), as cited in: Ernest W. Baughman, Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America
- ↑ Entry at WorldCat
- ↑ American Regional Folklore: A Sourcebook and Research Guide, p. 101
- ↑ New England bean-pot; American folk stories to read and to tell, WorldCat entry
- ↑ New England bean-pot: American folk stories to read and to tell at Google Books snippet view
- ↑ A review at Kirkus Reviews