A Folklorist's Progress: Reflections of a Scholar's Life Book

List of Illustrations A Tribute—Herman B. Wells Editors’ Preface A Daughter’s Perspective—Marguerite Thompson Hays with Dorothy Thompson Letsinger Introduction—Warren E. Roberts Seventieth Birthday Ballad Tribute

I A Bell Rings II From a Colonial Melting Pot III The First World I Knew IV From Boy to Man: Indianapolis, 1897-1905
V Kentucky Interlude: 1905-1907
VI Scholar’s Initiation: Wisconsin, 1907-1909
VII Learning to Teach: Portland, 1909-1911
VIII The Golden Gate: 1911-1912
IX Harvard: 1912-1914
X Apprenticeship: Texas, 1914-1918
XI Honeymoon Transition: 1918
XII Under Pike’s Peak: 1918-1920
XIII A New England Winter: 1920-1921
XIV Entrenching at Indiana: 1921-1926
XV A Year in Europe: 1926-1927
XVI Making a Motif Index: 1927-1931
XVII Harvard and Europe Revisited: 1931
XVIII Depression: 1931-1935
XIX Recognition Abroad: 1935
XX West Coast Revisited: 1936
XXI Recognition at Home: 1936-1937
XXII Ireland and Points East: Summer, 1937
XXIII New Administration at Indiana XXIV The East A-Callin’: 1939
XXV The War in Europe: 1939-1941
XXVI First Sabbatical:1941
XXVII Mobilization: 1942
XXVIII Doing Our Bit: 1943-1945
XXIX Post War: 1945-1946
XXX South American Journey: 1947
XXXI Asesor Tecnico: 1947
XXXII Dean: 1947-1950
XXXIII Midcentury: 1950-1951
XXXIV Norway: 1951-1952
XXXV Ex-Dean: 1952-1953
XXXVI Distinguished Service: 1953-1955
XXXVII Emeritus: 1955
XXXVIII Unfinished Business Biographical Glosses Selected Bibliography of Stith Thompson’s Work Index of Names and Places