Midwest Folklore
Title | Midwest Folklore PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Folklore |
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Folktales and Legends of the Middle West
Title | Folktales and Legends of the Middle West PDF eBook |
Author | Edward McClelland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780998018812 |
America's first superheroes lived in the Midwest. There was Nanabozho, the Ojibway man-god who conquered the King of Fish, took control of the North Wind, and inspired Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. Paul Bunyan, the larger-than-life North Woods lumberjack, created Minnesota's 10,000 lakes with his giant footsteps. More recently, Pittsburgh steelworker Joe Magerac squeezed out rails between his fingers, and Rosie the Riveter churned out the planes that won the world's most terrible war. In Folktales and Legends of the Middle West, Edward McClelland collects these stories and more. Readers will learn the sea shanties of the Great Lakes sailors and the spirituals of the slaves following the North Star across the Ohio River, and be frightened by tales of the Lake Erie Monster and Wisconsin's dangerous Hodag. A history of the region as told through its folklore, music, and legends, this is a book every Midwestern family should own.
Midwestern Folklore
Title | Midwestern Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Folklore |
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Midwestern Folklore
Title | Midwestern Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Folklore |
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Midwestern Folk Humor
Title | Midwestern Folk Humor PDF eBook |
Author | James P. Leary |
Publisher | August House Publishers |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
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Jokes, anecdotes, and tall talesLeary's book serves as an amusing smorgasbord which embraces all and spares none: Native Americans, French, Cornish, Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Finns and Poles. -- Mount Horeb Mail
The American Midwest
Title | The American Midwest PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew R. L. Cayton |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 1918 |
Release | 2006-11-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253003490 |
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Midwest Folklore
Title | Midwest Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Folklore |
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