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Author : Lake Shore Kearney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hodag and Other Tales of the Logging Camps written by Lake Shore Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Edmonds
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870204718
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Out of the Northwoods written by Michael Edmonds and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of America's strength and ingenuity. Until now, no one knew where he came from—and the extent to which this mythical hero is rooted in Wisconsin. Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. Part bibliographic mystery and part social history, Out of the Northwoods explains for the first time why we all know and love Paul Bunyan.
Author : Leslie Umberger
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568987286
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds written by Leslie Umberger and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, tosites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon's six hundred elaborate "Healing Machines," made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm-machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee-can lids, and more. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail.From "Original Rhinestone Cowboy" Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of "witch of Fox Point" Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.
Author : Edward McClelland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948742241
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Folktales and Legends of the Middle West written by Edward McClelland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin ... written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135917140
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Traditional Storytelling Today written by Margaret Read MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.
Author : B.A. Botkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000679470
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The American People written by B.A. Botkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.A. Botkin, is comprised of the traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth, for so long that they seem to have a life of their own. For Botkin, they are at the core of peoplehood. When one thinks of American folklore one thinks not only of the folklore of American life, the traditions that have sprung up on American soil, but also of the literature of folklore, the migratory traditions that have found a home in the New World.
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517113
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The WPA Guide to Wisconsin written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Bigfoot to Mothman written by Margo DeMello and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids-those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society-including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mothman. Comprehensive in its scope, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to know more about well-known creatures of myth and legend, such as the Chupacabra and the Jersey Devil, and discover lesser-known animals, such as the Bunyip of Australia and the Mamlambo of South Africa. Rather than purport to prove or deny the existence of these creatures, however, this volume classifies them within their respective cultural, historical, and social contexts, allowing readers to appreciate cryptids as cultural artifacts important to societies around the globe. Finally, this book goes beyond the study of the unknown to investigate who believes in cryptids, why they do, and why the study of cryptozoology is as much about understanding cryptids as it is about understanding ourselves.
Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760488
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin, a Guide to the Badger State written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1941 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Wisconsin. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest W. Baughman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111402770
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America written by Ernest W. Baughman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mody Coggin Boatright
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Family Saga and Other Phases of American Folklore written by Mody Coggin Boatright and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B.J. Hollars
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496215605
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Midwestern Strange written by B.J. Hollars and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars’s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired “Hodag hoax,” make this book a little bit X-Files, a little bit Ghostbusters, and a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes. Hollars’s quest is not to confirm or debunk these mysteries but rather to seek out these unexplained phenomena to understand how they complicate our worldview and to discover what truths might be gleaned by reexamining the facts in our “post-truth” era. Part memoir and part journalism, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of flyover folklore that also contends with the ways such oddities retain cultural footholds. Hollars shows how grappling with such subjects might fortify us against the glut of misinformation now inundating our lives. By confronting monsters, Martians, and a cabinet of curiosities, we challenge ourselves to look beyond our presumptions and acknowledge that just because something is weird, doesn’t mean it is wrong.
Author : William Thomas Cox
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015397651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Fearsome Creatures Of The Lumberwoods: With A Few Desert And Mountain Beasts written by William Thomas Cox and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN 13 : 162334901X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Terrible Hodag written by Caroline Arnold and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A logger named Ole Swanson befriends the terrible hodag who helps him run the boss man out of the forest.
Author : Hal Rammel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252017179
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Nowhere in America written by Hal Rammel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical tour through the imaginary terrain of the comic imagination as revealed in children's lore, literature, folktales, travel lies, film comedies, cartoons, comic books, and folksongs. With 14 bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
