Folklore from Utah, Wyoming, and southern Idaho : a documentation resulting from oral interviews and other field work done by students of folklore at Utah State University during the summer of 1958 / research supervised by Austin E. Fife ; arranged and edited by Austin E. Fife. 1958.

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Folklore from Utah, Wyoming, and southern Idaho : a documentation resulting from oral interviews and other field work done by students of folklore at Utah State University during the summer of 1958 / research supervised by Austin E. Fife ; arranged and edited by Austin E. Fife. 1958.

The content of the these three volumes is the result of field work done by students enrolled in English 131, ("Folklore in the Intermountain West" at Utah State University) during the summer of 1958. Each student was requested to prepare a paper based on primary sources--oral interviews, personal reminiscences, family journals, etc.--in his or her immediate folk environment. The volumes include papers on autograph verses, folk craft, folk medicine, folk history and stories, songs and verses, jokes, family heirlooms, construction of stone houses, etc. Some papers include newspaper clippings, photographs, or slides.

3 v., bound : ill., photos. ; 30 cm.

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Austin Edwin Fife (1909-1986) was born in Lincoln, Idaho. Alta Stevens Fife (1912-1996) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both were authors, folklorists, and the founders of the Fife Folklore Archive at Utah State University. From the description of Austin E. and Alta S. Fife papers, 1910-1996. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 71324624 Folklorist, author, and co-founder, with his wife, of the Fife Folklore Archive at Utah State University. From the de...