Carpenter Harlan Burch, who builds everything from cradle to casket, plants two trees for every one he cuts down, and when he is very old his sap begins to rise, he grows young again, and starts a family that still lives all over the mountains.

Super-cowboy Pecos Bill leaps onto the back of a monstrous cyclone and rides it like a bucking bronco, creating, in the process, the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley.

When Cat asks Mouse how the cookie jar broke and where the cookies went, Mouse tells Cat implausible story after implausible story.

Born about 100 centuries ago, the narrator has seen many things happen since he watched Adam and Eve eat an apple.

A retelling of the tall tale about Pecos Bill, who was raised by coyotes, and how he grew up to become a cowboy.

A retelling of the tall tale about a railroad engineer named Casey Jones.

A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawing from folktales, popular stories, and ballads.

Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.

William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property. The story revolves around a...

Sally Ann, wife of Davy Crockett, fears nothing--and proves it when braggart Mike Fink tries to scare her.