Midwestern Folklore
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Total Pages | : 202 |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Edward McClelland |
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Total 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.
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : James P. Leary |
Publisher | : August House Publishers |
Total 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
Author | : Andrew R. L. Cayton |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total 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.
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Terry Ann Mood-Leopold |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2004-09-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1576076210 |
An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.
Author | : Jessica Freeburg |
Publisher | : Adventure Publications |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2016-08-23 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1591936470 |
Is scaring yourself silly by telling creepy tales around a campfire your idea of a good time? Paranormal investigators Jessica Freeburg and Natalie Fowler share reportedly true accounts of the strangest, most chilling creatures ever documented in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. From sightings of bigfoot to encounters with werewolves--and even a Great Lakes sea monster--this collection of 23 stories is sure to keep you up at night. Try to remember: that noise you hear... it's probably just the wind.