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Frankie Silver — A Full Text of the Ballad, from Bobbie McMillon. 2000. North Carolina Folklore Journal 47 (Winter/Spring): 5-7.
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Nelson, Scott Reynolds, with Marc Aronson. 2008. Ain’t Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic. 64 pp. Juvenile literature; biography; research clues and discoveries.
Nelson, Scott Reynolds. 2006. Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend [W.Va.; identifies the real man, the folk ballad history, black convict labor, railroad robber barons; Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]. New York: Oxford University Press. 214 pp.
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Rolph, Daniel N. 1994. "To Shoot, Burn, and Hang": Folk-History From a Kentucky Mountain Family and Community. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 171 pp.
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