Western Studies: Halloween
Western Studies: Halloween Bibliography
To honor the idea of Halloween, presented here are a selection of books from the McCracken Research Library.
Ghost Stories
Baker, Betty. Great Ghost Stories of the Old West. Four Winds Press, 1968.
Botkin, Benjamin Albert. A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. Crown Publishers, 1944.
Caldwell, George W. Ghost Stories of the California Missions and Rhymes of the Gypsy Trail. G.W. Caldwell, 1939.
Garry, Jim. This Ol’ Drought Ain’t Broke Us yet (but We’re All Bent Pretty Bad): Stories of the American West. Orion Books, 1992.
Greenway, John, and Glen Rounds. Folklore of the Great West: Selections from Eighty-three Years of the Journal of American Folklore. American West Publishing Company, 1969.
Hansen, Conrad. I Remember: Stories of Wyoming. Jean R. Jones, 1976.
How the Summer Season Came: And Other Assiniboine Indian Stories. Revised edition, Montana Historical Society Press in cooperation with the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Tribes; Distributed by the Globe Pequot Press, 2003.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune. University of Missouri Press, 2010.
Larios, Shellie Herzog. Yellowstone Ghost Stories. Riverbend, 2006.
Rambo, F. Ralph. Lady of Mystery (Sarah Winchester). Rosicrucian Press, 1967.
Seiden, Othniel J. Denver’s Richthofen Castle. Stonehenge Books, 1980.
Shreve, John Ray. Memories Ridin’ on the Wind. [n.p]., 2005.
Teague, Alexandra,“Sarah Winchester, 46 years dead, talks to Andy Warhol” Zyzzyva, v.29 n.1 (Spring & Summer 2013): 215-216.
Ghost Towns
Brown, Robert L. Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns, 1963.
Conklin, David G. Montana History Weekends: Fifty-two Adventures in History. Globe Pequot Press, 2002.
Davis, Jean. Shallow Diggin’s: Tales from Montana’s Ghost Towns. Caxton Printers, 1963.
Edgar, Paul. Ghost Town. P. Edgar, 1972.
Florin, Lambert. Tales the Western Tombstones Tell. Superior Publishing Company, 1967.
Jessen, Kenneth. Ghost Towns, Colorado Style. J.V. Publications, 2001.
Lapeyre, Robert A. Surprise City: (Ghost-town Memories). [n.p]. 1963.
Lawliss, Chuck. Ghost Towns, Gamblers, & Gold. Gallery Books, 1985.
Miller, Donald C. Ghost Towns of Montana. Pruett Publishing Company, 1974.
Miller, Donald C. Ghost Towns of Wyoming. Pruett Publishing Company, 1977.
Murbarger, Nell. Ghosts of the Adobe Walls: Human Interest and Historical Highlights from 400 Ghost Haunts of Old Arizona. Westernlore Press, 1964.
Paul, Elliot. A Ghost Town on the Yellowstone. Random House, 1948.
Sherman, James E., Barbara H. Sherman, and Donald J. Percious. Ghost Towns of Arizona. University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Silverberg, Robert. Ghost Towns of the American West. Ohio University Press, 1994.
Spita, Joyce. A Quick History of South Pass City, Atlantic City: Wyoming Ghost Towns. Little London Press, 1980.
Steinhilber, Berthold. Ghost Towns of the American West. Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
Weis, Norm. Ghost Towns of the Northwest. Caxton Printers, 1972.
Witches and Magic
Boatright, Mody C., Wilson Mathis Hudson, and Allen Maxwell (eds). Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales, and Talk. Texas Folklore Society, Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.
Boatright, Mody C., Wilson Mathis Hudson, and Allen Maxwell (eds). Singers and Storytellers. Texas Folklore Society, Southern Methodist University Press, 1961.
Conley, Robert J. The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
David-Néel, Alexandra, and A. d’Arsonval. Magic and Mystery in Tibet. Claude Kendall, 1932.
Dobie, J. Frank, Mody C. Boatright, and Harry Huntt Ransom (eds). Texian Stomping Grounds. Texas Folklore Society, 1941.
Dorson, Richard Mercer. Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States. University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Emerson, Scott, and Howard Post. The Magic Boots. Gibbs Smith, 1994.
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Abridged edition, Macmillan, 1951.
Gardner, Martin. Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus. Prometheus Books, 1981.
Kluckhohn, Clyde. Navaho Witchcraft. The Museum, 1944.
Lorenz, Konrad. On Aggression. Methuen, 1967.
Parkhill, Forbes. Donna Madixxa Goes West: The Biography of a Witch. Pruett Press, 1968.
Pastoureau, Michel. Black: The History of a Color. Princeton University Press, 2009.
Pastoureau, Michel, and Jody Gladding. Red: The History of a Color. Princeton University Press, 2017.
Pastoureau, Michel, and Jody Gladding. White: The History of a Color. Princeton University Press, 2023.
Randolph, Vance. Ozark Magic and Folklore. Dover Publications, 1964 (1947).
Walker, Deward E. Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples. University of Idaho Press, 1989.
Monsters and Cryptids of Folklore
Alley, J. Robert. Raincoast Sasquatch: The Bigfoot/sasquatch Records of Southeast Alaska, Coastal British Columbia, & Northwest Washington, From Puget Sound to Yakutat. Hancock House, 2003.
Branch, Michael P. On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer. Pegasus Books, Ltd, 2022.
Brown, David E., Neil B. Carmony, and Randy Babb. Gila Monster: Facts and Folklore of America’s Aztec Lizard. Second edition, High-Lonesome Books, 1991.
Browne, Vee, and Baje Whitethorne. Monster Slayer: A Navajo Folktale. Northland Publishing, 1991.
Byrne, Peter. The Search for Big Foot: Monster, Myth or Man? Acropolis Books, 1975.
Cloisters (Museum), and Margaret B. Freeman. The Unicorn Tapestries. Metropolitan Museum of Art,1976.
Coleman, Loren, and Jerome Clark. Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Green, John. On the Track of the Sasquatch. Ballantine Books, 1973.
Meldrum, D. Jeffrey. Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. Forge, 2006.
Pyle, Robert Michael. Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide. Counterpoint Press, 2017.
Redfern, Nicholas. The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti, and Cryptid Primates. Visible Ink Press, 2016.
Regal, Brian. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Supernatural Fiction from Gothic to Modern
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, and Gustave Doré. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Harper & Bros, 1877.
Haggard, H. Rider. The Witch’s Head. Worthington Co, 1889.
Irving, Washington, Frank T. Merrill, and Samuel Edson Cassino. Rip Van Winkle. S.E. Cassino, 1888.
Lackey, Mercedes. The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley. DAW Books, Inc, 2022.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: In 10 Volumes. Richmond edition, John Hovendon, [190?].
Siciliano, Sam. Blood Farm: An Iowa Gothic. Pageant Books, 1988.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Doubleday, Page & Co, 1923.
October 2025/Nathan E. Bender, McCracken Research Library.