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16 produkter
Golden Years My Ass
Adventures in Geriatric Indignity
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2010
220 kr
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Embracing Fry Bread
Confessions of a Wannabe
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2012
218 kr
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When he was out playing Indian, enacting Hollywood-inspired scenarios, it never occurred to the child Roger Welsch that the little girl sitting next to him in school was Indian. A lifetime of learning later, Welsch's enthusiasm is undimmed, if somewhat more enlightened. In Embracing Fry Bread …
My Nebraska
The Good, the Bad, and the Husker
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2011
204 kr
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Roger Welsch is a fierce fan of Nebraska—not just the football team, or the state's famous beef, or its endless sky, or its ferocious and ferociously unpredictable weather, but the whole thing. His license plate says CAPT NEB, and he means it. Welsch loves Nebraska as the heart of America's Great …
Wyoming Folklore
Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech
Av Federal Writers' Project, James R. Dow m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
204 kr
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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 …
Reluctant Pilgrim
A Skeptic's Journey Into Native Mysteries
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2015
246 kr
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Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, "like the sun and moon." According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. "I make my request of the stones and …
Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2016
251 kr
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2017 Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction: FolkloreOne day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: “Why am I an only child?” His father’s answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to …
Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 1980
148 kr
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"More than corn grows tall on the American Plains. Here for the delectation of amateur folklorists is a collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa—funny and fantastic yarns and anecdotes of pioneer vintage that belie the erroneous notion that the men and women …
Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore
Häftad, 1984
246 kr
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Folklore tells us something about almost every aspect of the life of the people. This rich and entertaining collection of Nebraska pioneer folklore, taken largely from the Nebraska Folklore Pamphlets issued by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, is intended first and foremost for the general …
Catfish at the Pump
Humor and the Frontier
Av Roger Welsch, Linda K. Welsch
Häftad, 1986
167 kr
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Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were," says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." The proof is in Catfish at the Pump, a collection of the kind of humor that softened the hardships of pioneering on the Great Plains. From yellowed newspapers, magazines, and forgotten Nebraska …
Cather's Kitchens
Foodways in Literature and Life
Av Roger Welsch, Linda K. Welsch
Häftad, 2002
251 kr
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Roger and Linda Welsch matched references from Willa Cather's writing with recipes they collected from Cather family recipe files, from other period cookbooks, and from old-time ethnic cooks still living in the Bohemian tradition. Cather's Kitchens comes as close as possible to the precise recipes …
Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse
Tales of Old-Time Horse Trading
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 1987
210 kr
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Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners—those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, …
Touching the Fire
Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 1997
186 kr
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The Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawka Indians wages a battle for the return of their sacred Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing artifacts. It reposes under glass in an eastern museum at the beginning of Touching the Fire. Seven interlinked stories, beginning with a court battle in the …
It's not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 1999
251 kr
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Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured professorship and headed toward the hinterland. Resettled in the open heart of Nebraska with his wife, Welsch proceeded to learn how to live. It's Not the End …
Losing Weight without Shedding Pounds: 24 Steps to Your Inner Skinny
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2011
140 kr
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Life with Dogs
Av Roger Welsch
Häftad, 2021
291 kr
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“Who’s a good dog?!” They’re ALL good dogs, that’s who! Big or little, pedigree or mutt, rolling in stinky stuff, or stealing a T-bone meant for the barbecue grill, dogs are humankind’s best hope for sanity in trying times. Dogs are eternally optimistic and somehow know how to comfort the more …
