Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech

by Work Projects Administration and James R. Dow

Book Overview

In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243022
• ISBN13: 9780803243026
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"