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  • Concept Work

    Constructing Frameworks for Folklore Studies

    Folklorists study the richness of customary forms of cultural expression and the everyday social worlds in which all people interact and communicate. They use a range of methods—literary, ethnographic, philological, visual, historical, comparative, artifactual—to engage with and learn from diverse peoples, but they also rely on a stock of key concepts that have grown up within their discipline, ... Leer más

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  • Material Vernaculars

    Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds

    Edición de Jason Baird Jackson ...
    Series series Material Vernaculars
    The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in ... Leer más

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  • Milling Around

    Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks

    Barbara Baird, aka "The Accidental Ozarkian," has published her first book - a collection of visits to 26 mills in the Missouri Ozarks. "Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks" is a full-color, glossy-covered book that contains descriptions of Baird's visits to each mill, along with beautiful photographs, illustrated maps and GPS coordinates. Baird's husband, Jason, provided the ... Leer más

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  • Yuchi Folklore

    Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community

    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi are largely unknown among their non-Native neighbors and often misunderstood in scholarship. Jason ... Leer más

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  • Ghost Towns of the Mountain West

    Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada

    de Philip Varney ...
    The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and ... Leer más

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  • Canadian Railroad Trilogy

    Ilustraciones de Ian Wallace ...
    This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot’s heart-stirring song, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada’s centennial year and it has been a classic ever since. It eloquently describes the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway — “an iron road runnin’ from the sea to the sea” — a great feat of nation ... Leer más

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  • Building the Columbia River Highway

    They Said It Couldn't Be Done

    de Peg Willis ...
    The story behind the construction of the Oregon scenic highway and the men who made it happen.When nine-hundred-foot ice age floods carved the Columbia River Gorge through the Cascade Mountains to the sea, little space was left for man to form a highway of his own. It took an artist-poet-engineer extraordinaire to conquer this reluctant piece of real estate and produce the nation's first scenic ... Leer más

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  • Key Valley Railway

    The Railway That Ran to a River …and Stopped.

    de Craig Dunn ...
    The Key Valley Railway was located in the Muskoka region, a major area for logging in the province of Ontario from about 1919 until 1935. Sixteen miles long, the railway connected to the CPR main line at Pakesley, ran on the north side of the Key River to Lost Channel on the Pickerel River, and stopped.It's primary function was to move the enormous amounts of lumber being logged in that area to ... Leer más

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  • Golden, Colorado

    Series series Images of America
    Where The West Lives! Golden's motto sums up the colorful history of the small town set at the entrance to the storied gold fields of Colorado. The scenic valley that shelters Golden caught the notice of some of the most famed pioneers of the West: explorer Major Stephen Long, world traveler Isabella Bird, showman Buffalo Bill Cody, and brewer Adolph Coors. Chronicled here in over 200 vintage ... Leer más

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  • The Portland Bridge Book

    The third edition of The Portland Bridge Book is like an old faithful bridge that's been restored by a dedicated crew of specialists to increase its carrying capacity for the public's enjoyment. Over a span of 225 pages (50 percent larger than the second edition and more than twice the size of the first edition), this edition delivers:150 historic and large format contemporary photographs, many ... Leer más

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  • Lake Tahoe's Railroads

    Series series Images of Rail
    Lake Tahoe is the majestic mountain lake that spans the boundary line of California and Nevada. The lake's clarity and scenic beauty are legendary. In the 1870s, the Nevada Comstock Lode created an insatiable appetite for Lake Tahoe's virgin pine forests. The timbers would shore up underground mining and build communities approaching 40,000 inhabitants. Railroads on three shores delivered the logs ... Leer más

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  • West Yellowstone

    de Paul Shea ...
    Series series Images of America
    Founded in 1908 to provide services for visitors arriving at the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park, the town of West Yellowstone, Montana, serves tens of thousands of international travelers each year. From 1908 to 1960, visitors arrived on Union Pacific Railroad parlor cars and boarded awaiting stagecoaches or, in later years, touring buses to embark on their journey to Wonderland. The ... Leer más

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