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Vance Randolph

Vance Randolph (February 23, 1892 - November 1, 1980) was a famous folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He wrote a number of books on topics including the Ozarks, Little Blue Books, and juvenile fiction.

Randolph was born in Pittsburg, Kansas, the son of a lawyer and a teacher. Despite being born in a privileged home, Randolph dropped out of high school to work on leftist leaning publications. This did not stop him from attending college and he graduated from what is now Pittsburg State University in 1914. He pursued graduate work at Clark University and received a Master of Arts degree in psychology.

He moved to Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri in 1919. He never moved away from the Ozarks and remained in the Ozark Mountains from 1920 until his death. He met his first wife in McDonald County, Marie Wardlaw Wilbur, and made a living by writing for sporting and outdoor publications. While writing, Randolph used pseudonyms, but never for his work on the Ozark culture.

In 1927, Randolph had his first article published in the Journal of American Folklore, based on work on Ozark dialect and folk beliefs. The dialect work led to multiple publications throughout the 1920's and 1930's in American Speech and Dialect Notes. In 1947, Randolph had his first major book release, published through Columbia University, Ozark Superstitions.

Randolph wrote about non-folklore aspects of Ozark society, such as music. His Ozark Mountain Folks describes the creation of a distinctive church choir singing style created by a corps of uncredentialed, itinerant choral instructors.

Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales was a national bestseller. He published over a dozen works on Ozark folklore. A longtime member of The Missouri Folklore Society, he was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society in 1978. He married Mary Celestia Parler in 1962. He died in 1980 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Born 23 February 1892
Died 1 November 1980

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  • Cover of: We Always Lie to Strangers. Tall Tales from the Ozarks

    First published in 1951 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Ozark Folksongs: Songs of the South and West (Songs of the South & West)

    First published in 1980 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Ozark folklore: an annotated bibliography.

    First published in 1987 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales

    First published in 1983 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Ozark folklore: an annotated bibliography

    First published in 1972 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Hot springs and hell: and other folk jests and anecdotes from the Ozarks.

    First published in 1965 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Ozark superstitions.

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  • Cover of: Ozark Folksongs (Religious Songs & Other Items)

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  • Cover of: Who blowed up the Church House and other Ozark folktales

    First published in 1952 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ozark superstitions

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  • Cover of: Pissing in the snow

    First published in 1988 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ozark outdoors: hunting and fishing stories of the Ozarks

    First published in 1934 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Vance Randolph collection

    First published in 1941 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen, the career of the most colorful outlaw the Indian Territory ever knew

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  • Cover of: Ozark ghost stories: gruesome and humorous tales of the supernatural in the backwoods of the South

    First published in 1980 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: PISSING IN THE SNOW: AND OTHER OZARK FOLKTALES

    First published in 1977 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: New experiments in animal psychology

    First published in 1925 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Life among the bees

    First published in 1924 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Life among the butterflies

    First published in 1925 — 1 edition
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Born 23 February 1892
Died 1 November 1980

Subjects

Folklore, Tales, Social life and customs, Appalachians (People), Superstition, American wit and humor, English Folk songs, American Erotic stories, Biography, English language, Folk songs, English, Songs and music, Tales, united states, Ants, Bees, Butterflies, Church history, Dialects, Evolution, Female offenders, Fishing, Folk songs, Folk songs, american, Folklore, united states, German language

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Ozark Mountains, Ozark Mountains Region, Arkansas, Missouri, United States, America, Monts Ozark, Oklahoma, West (U.S.)

People

Belle Starr (1848-1889), Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), John B. Watson (1878-1958), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Vance Randolph (1892-1980)

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Middle Ages, 600-1500, Modern period, 1500-

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
March 9, 2010 Edited by Lance Arthur Added new photo
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import