Code of the West

by Bruce A. Rosenberg

Jesse James, General Custer, and Casey Jones. The Pony Express, The Momon handcart odyssey to Zion. The Forty-Niners pick-and-shovel pilgrimage to Mammon. These are the colorful stuff of Western American folklore, part of an original and vital heritage passed on through songs, tales, and dime novels in the last century, and movies, advertising, and television serials in our own. In The Code of the West folklorist Bruce Rosenberg takes a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253313872
• ISBN13: 9780253313874
• Release Date: July 1982
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher