Forms Upon the Frontier – Folklife and Folk Arts in the United States — Edited by Austin & Alta Fife and Henry H. Glassie — Monograph Series Vol.16, No.2., April 1969

Utah State University, Monograph Series Vol. XVI No. 2 April 1969. Softbound. 189 Pages.

Average good to fair used condition softcover.

Contents:

1. Introduction, by Henry H. Glassie

2. Folklife and Folk Arts in the United States: Exhibit…by Austin E. Fife

3. Architecture:

4. The Impact of the Georgian Form on American Folk Housing (abstract) by Henry H. Glassie

5. Building in Brick in Colonial North America: The Patterned Brick Houses of West New Jersey (abstract) by Roger T. Trindell

6. Dutch Barns and Barracks in New Jersey (abstract) by Peter O. Wacker

7. The Waggoner Log House near Paragon, Indiana (abstract) by Warren E. Roberts

8. Architectural Values of Early Frontier Log Structures, by Philip W. Sultz

9. Arts and Crafts:

10. Sectarian Costume Research in the United States, by Don Yoder

11. Cheever Meaders: North Georgia Potter (abstract) by Ralph Rinzler

12. A Progress Report on the Pictorial Documentation of Early Utah Gravestones (abstract) by Maury Haseltine

13. Aspen Tree Doodlings in the Wasatch Mountains: A Preliminary Survey of Traditional Tree Carvings by Jan Harold Brunvand and John C. Abramson

14. Medicine and Recipes:

15. Folk Medical Magic and Symbolism in the West, by Wayland D. Hand

16. Mariah Huntsman Leavitt: Midwife of the Desert Frontier, by Juanita Brooks

17. Use of Native Plants in Early Mormon Country (abstract) by Berniece A. Andersen

18. Folk Life, Customs, and Ethnic Groups:

19. American Folk Customs of Courtship and Marriage: The Bedroom, by Frances Tally

20. Opportunities for Folklife Study in Northwest Mexico (abstract) by James S. Griffith

21. Defining the American Folk Legend (abstract) by Richard M. Dorson

22. The Socio-Cultural Life of the Lower Rio Grande Valley to 1859 (abstract) by James L. Evans

23. Kansas and the Lindsborg Swedes (abstract) by William E. Koch

24. Cache Valley Horses (abstract) by Claire Noall.

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