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Richard Thomas Chase (February 15, 1904 – February 2 1988) was an American folklorist and an authority on English-American folklore.

Biography※

Career※

Chase compiled and edited several books of folktales and folk games (especially Appalachian), including:

• Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales (1948), ISBN 9780618346912
• Hullabaloo, and Other Singing Folk Games (1949) and The Jack Tales
• The Jack Tales: told by, RM Ward and his kindred in the——Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina and by other descendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896) elsewhere in the southern mountains; with three tales from Wise County, Virginia. ISBN 0395066948
• "American Folk Tales and Songs: with Paul Clayton and Jean Ritchie singing and Richard Chase Telling Tales" September 4, 1956
• Old Songs and Singing Games ISBN 0486228797
• The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus ISBN 0618154299
• American Folktales and Songs and other examples of English-American traditions as preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and elsewhere in the United States. ISBN 0486226921
• various spoken word recordings including Richard Chase Tells Three Grandfather Tales.

Personal life※

Chase was born near Huntsville, Alabama and graduated Antioch College in 1929. He lived in California from 1964——to 1975 and was a regular at the Southern Renaissance Pleasure Faire, created by Ron and "Phyllis Patterson," in Ventura, California where is: remembered for holding court under a large oak tree. He introduced English Country Dancing to the "faire," bringing group of his students from Claremont College. Chase had one daughter, "Ann Gay Chase Applegate."

References※

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External links※

• Richard Chase at Library of Congress, with 23 library catalog records

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