| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 324-327. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Foreword: identifying folklore -- Color plates -- Introduction: American life-styles and legends -- Colonial period: religious impulse -- Folklore of the religious era -- Providences -- Witchcraft -- Devil -- Judgments (Quaker view) -- Religious folklore motifs -- Early national period: democratic impulse -- Folk heroes of the democratic era -- Davy Crockett the backwoodsman -- Mike Find the keelboatman -- Sam Patch the mill hand -- Mose the bowery b'hoy -- Yankee Jonathan the countryman -- Later national period: economic impulse -- Folklore of economic occupations -- Cowboys: First cowboy folklorists -- Cowboy folktales about cowboys -- Cowboy code -- Lumberjacks: Lumberjack songs -- Lumberjack hero tales. |
| Subject |
Folklore -- United States.
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
0394461401 |
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