Scope and Contents Published as American Murder Ballads and Their Stories in 1958 by Oxford University Press. Also published in 1965 by Citadel Press. These two books are bound carbon copies of the manuscript . Olive Woolley Burt collected these ballads about murders of various types, from crimes of passion to murder for gain, from her travels throughout the United States. The book includes the known factual background of each ballad and the ballads or versions of each ballad...