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Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech
Federal Writers´ Project
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Description for Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech
Paperback. Collection of Wyoming's folklore produced by the Federal Writers Project Editor(s): Dow, James R.; Dow, Susan D.; Welsch, Roger L. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of the Great War and Native Americans who remembered Little Big Horn. The work of the FWP in Wyoming, collected and edited here for the first time, comprises a rich ... Read more
In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of the Great War and Native Americans who remembered Little Big Horn. The work of the FWP in Wyoming, collected and edited here for the first time, comprises a rich ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803243026
SKU
V9780803243026
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About Federal Writers´ Project
James R. Dow is a professor emeritus of foreign languages and literatures at Iowa State University and is the author of German Folklore: A Handbook. Roger L. Welsch is a well-known folklorist and essayist and the author or coauthor of more than thirty books, including A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore and Cather’s Kitchens: Foodways in Literature and Life, both available in ... Read more
Reviews for Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech
“Roger Welsch is probably the only man from CBS Sunday Morning who has milked a cow. This lends him credibility in the eyes of many of us and qualifies him to sort the wheat from the chaff of Wyoming folklore.”—Baxter Black, cowboy, poet, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator "This gathering of folklore, legends, and history is brought to readers thanks ... Read more