Federal Writers' Project

Wyoming Folklore (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 repository of folklore and history and a firsthand look at the Old West in the process of becoming the new American frontier. Wyoming Folklore presents the legends, local and oral histories, and pioneer stories that defined the state in the early twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Original
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803267916
• Artikelnr.: 55282018

Autorenporträt

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 Bison Books editions. Susan D. Dow's photographs have appeared in several of James Dow's books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction    
Part 1. Pioneer Memories   
1. Cowboy Days with the Old Union Cattle Company   
2. Tale of the Southern Trail
3. Life in a Line Camp 
4. A Christmas in the Mountains    
5. An Old-Time Christmas in Jackson Hole 
6. Stories of a Round-up     
7. The Last Great Buffalo Hunt of Washakie and His Band in the Big Horn
Basin Country    
8. A Stampede    
9. Civil Strife  
10. The Fleur-de-Lis Cocktail
11. Putting on the Style     
12. American Class     
13. Packer, the Man-Eater    
Part 2. The White Man's Tales
14. The Lost Treasure of the Haystacks   
15. Lost Gold of the Big Horn Basin
16. The Lost Soldier Mine    
17. The Lost DeSmet Treasure 
18. Indian Joe's Gold  
19. The Lost Sweetwater Mine 
20. The Lost 600 Pounds
21. The Coney    
22. Bearing Down 
23. Slovakian Rabbits  
24. The Prolific Herds 
25. Hunting on the Railroad  
26. All Aboard!  
27. The Fossil Bug     
28. The Big Snake on Muddy Creek   
29. Wyoming Fauna
30. The Capture of a Sea Serpent  
31. Vanishing Elk
32. The Hard-Water Spring    
33. "Dutch" Seipt's River    
34. The Great Discovery
35. Love on the Yellowstone  
36. The Dying Cowboy   
37. Getting the Tenderfoot   
38. Jerky Bill's Funeral     
39. The Wake of the White Swede    
40. Disappearing Johnny
41. The Lynching of Walters and Gorman   
42. Jim Baker's Revenge
43. The Piano Tuner and His Hallet Canyon Hunch
44. The Man with the Celluloid Nose
45. Portugee's Ride    
46. The White Rider    
47. The Chicago Kid    
48. A Woman's Wiles    
49. The Legend of the Indian Princess Ah-ho-ap-pa    
50. Ghost Lights on Old Morrisey Road    
51. The Hoback River Ghost   
52. The Phantom Scout  
53. The Specter of Cheyenne Pass   
54. The Laramie Ghost  
55. The Ghost of Cross Anchor Ranch
56. The Ghost of Nightcap Bay
57. The Oakley Ghost   
58. Mel Quick's Story  
59. The Hartville Rag  
60. The Story of Whiskey Gap 
61. The Legend of Crazy Woman Country    
62. The Story of Rawhide Butte     
63. The Legend of Fanny's Peak     
Part 3. Indian Folktales     
64. Arapaho (1) and Arapaho (2)    
65. Shoshone     
66. Axe Brown's Stories
67. Lone Bear's Story  
68. The Ninam-bea, or "Little People"
69. The Mouthless People     
70. A Shoshone Legend  
71. The Fort Washakie Hot Spring   
72. The Story of the Cottontail and the Sun    
73. The Sheep-eaters   
74. The Happy Hunting Grounds
75. The Legend of Sheep Mountain   
76. The Legend of "One-Eye"  
77. The Legend of Big Springs
78. Shoshone Version of the Legend of the Big Spring 
79. The Legend of Wind River Canyon
80. The Legend of Chugwater Creek  
81. Legends of Lake DeSmet   
82. Lovers' Leap 
83. The Legend of Bull Lake  
84. The Great Medicine Wheel 
85. The Legends of the Devil's Tower     
86. A Kiowa Legend of the Devil's Tower  
Part 4. Folk Belief, Custom, and Speech  
87. Weather
88. Love   
89. Good Luck    
90. Bad Luck     
91. Wishes 
92. Medicines    
93. Physiognomy, Reading Character and Omens by Physical Features
94. Dream Interpretations    
95. Miscellaneous Beliefs and Omens
96. Indian Beliefs     
97. Glossary of Terms, Nicknames, and Folk Speech    
98. Cheap Thunder! An Example of Folk Speech in Action