Resources

Be sure to check out Prof. Chuck Holliday's page for more excellent references.
Also, thanks to Alan E. Mays for the help.

Dorson, Richard M. Man and Beast in American Comic Legend.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982, pp. 50-54.

Rubin, Cynthia Elyce and Morgan Williams. Larger Than Life: The
American Tall-Tale Postcard, 1905-1915. NY: Abbeville Press, 1990.

Simberloff, Daniel S. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Taxidermist: An evolutionary ecologist ponders the origins of America's
'jackalope'," Natural History, 96(8), 1987 August: pp. 50-55.

Stebner, Karey Huff. Travel Wonderful Wyoming with Jesse Jackalope.
Rawlins, WY: Karey Kreations, 1991.

Welsch, Roger L. Tall-Tale Postcards: A Pictorial History. NY: A.S.
Barnes and Co., 1976, pp. 78-81.
Interesting account, photos of postcards and hunting licenses.

Wyman, Walker D. Mythical Creatures of the North Country. River Falls,WI:
River Falls State University Press, 1969, pp. 4-5.
Discusses the "Jack-pine Jackelope", once found in the "North Country" pine forests of Wisconsin.

Richard M. Dorson. "The Jackalope." In Man and Beast in American Comic
Legend, pp. 50-54. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

Jill Leslie Furst. "Natural History and Myth in West Mexico." Journal of
Latin American Lore 15 (1989): 137-49.

"Jackalopes: Tall Tale or Fearsome Critter? You Be the Judge." Philip Morris
Magazine, Winter 1988, p. 13.

Daniel S. Simberloff. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Taxidermist."
Natural History, Aug. 1987, pp. 50-54.

Stern, Jane and Michael. "The Jackalope Capital of the World: Douglas, Wyo."
In Amazing America, p. 445. New York: Random House, 1978.

"Jackalopes." In Way Out West, pp. 268-69.

Walker D. Wyman. "Mythical Creatures of Wisconsin." In Wisconsin Folklore,
pp. 13-18. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Extension Department of Arts
Development, 1979.

"Jackalope", Alan Dean Foster, appeared in short story
collection called Mad Amos, published by Ballantine Books, 1996.
ISBN # 0-345-39362-7
First Edition, March 1996.
Thanks to Harry Spetla

"Santa's First Wild West Ride",
author unknown, appeared in "Arizona Highways", December 1987
Thanks to Chris McCorkhill