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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / by Dundes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Levi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? …”
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Beowulf by All : Community Translation and Workbook /

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Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / by Watt, Ronald G.

Table of Contents: “…"On the Lord's business" -- Early life in Britain -- Journey to America and Nauvoo -- Mission to Britain -- Across the wide Atlantic and on to Zion -- Life and times in Utah : politics in the territory -- Reporter for Zion -- Deseret alphabet -- Family and life in Salt Lake City -- A man for all seasons : intellectual activities -- Sermons of obedience : traveling with Brigham Young and to Britain -- Life-changing events : leaving the office, businessman -- Spiritual wanderings : apostasy and spiritualism -- Family and farm life in Davis County.…”
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Mormon Trail, The : Yesterday and Today / by Hill, William E.

Table of Contents: “…The nature of the Mormon Trail -- Early history : the Mormon Church, the development of the Mormon Trail and Mormon migrations : 1803-1869 -- Maps, guidebooks, and diaries -- Pictorial journey -- Historic sites : museums and displays -- Readings and sources.…”
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Mormonism's Last Colonizer : The Life and Times of William H. Smart / by Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in Franklin -- Years of trial and torment -- An aborted mission -- A repentant sinner finds himself -- Putting a shoulder to the wheel -- On-the-job training in Heber Valley -- Making Indian land Mormon country -- The Vernal years -- Civilizing the reservation lands -- The fourth-and final-stake presidency -- Struggle and failure in Leota -- Hard times -- The final years.…”
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The Frontier Challenge : Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West /

Table of Contents: “…--American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F.P. Prucha.--Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R.W. …”
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Neck of the World / by Rzicznek, F. Daniel (Frank Daniel), 1979-

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Enduring Liberalism : American Political Thought Since the 1960s / by Fowler, Robert Booth, 1940-

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Getting By : Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development / by Gringeri, Christina E.

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Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet / by Herring, Joseph B., 1947-

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The Enduring Indians of Kansas : A Century and a Half of Acculturation / by Herring, Joseph B., 1947-

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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs : Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains / by Isern, Thomas D. (Thomas Dean), 1952-

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Requiem : Variations on Eighteenth Century Themes / by McDonald, Forrest

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The Sex Radicals : Free Love in High Victorian America / by Sears, Hal D. 1942-

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Shaping Modern Liberalism : Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought / by Stettner, Edward A. 1940-

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America's Bachelor Uncle : Thoreau and the American Polity / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

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Our Limits Transgressed : Environmental Political Thought in America / by Taylor, Bob Pepperman

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Newe Hupia : Shoshoni Poetry Songs / by Crum, Beverly

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The American Deists : Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic / by Walters, Kerry S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- I believe in one God, Creator of the universe / Benjamin Franklin -- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against errors / Thomas Jefferson -- Nature is God's revelation / Ethan Allen -- Let man study nature's laws! / Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney -- My own mind is my own church / Thomas Paine -- Reason, the glory of our nature / Elihu Palmer -- The reasoning power, celestial guest, the stamp upon the soul impress'd / Philip Freneau -- The temple of reason : indefense of pure religion -- Prospect, or, View of the moral world : virtue, the highest dignity of man --The theophilanthropist : the love of God and man -- Sources and permissions -- Bibliographic essay.…”
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Old Deseret Live Stock Company : A Stockman's Memoir / by Frischknecht, W. Dean

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