A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer FolkloreRoger L. Welsch Taken from the Nebraska Folklore Pamphlets issued by the Federal Writers's Project in the 1930s. |
Contents
Songs of Trail and Prairie | 3 |
Songs of the Farmers Alliance | 57 |
Square Dances | 80 |
White Mans Tales | 141 |
Indian Tales | 176 |
Some Old Nebraska Folk Customs | 241 |
Sayings Proverbs and Beliefs | 266 |
Childrens Games | 281 |
Pioneer Cooking | 307 |
Nebraska Folk Cures | 329 |
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Common terms and phrases
allspice Antoine Barada bake balance and swing Balance home Barada boil bread buffalo bury called Canktewin Cass County chickens Chorus Collected corn County couple balance cowboy cure dance doe and gents dough eggs eyes Farmers Febold Febold Feboldson flour Four hands half fourth couples gent girl grand right hands and circle head hill horse Indian join hands killed Lane County Lincoln looked Louise Pound Mari Sandoz meat Meet your partner Missouri River morning mother Nebraska City neck Neeshu never night Old Dan Tucker old woman Omaha partner and promenade pass right Pawnees player poultice prairie promenade home QUADRILLE Repeat for second right and left ring river salt shivaree singing Sioux song square dance string sugar Sunapahat swing your partner teaspoon tell tipi told tribe turpentine Two-Trees wart young
References to this book
Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse: Tales of Old-Time Horse Trading Roger L. Welsch Limited preview - 1987 |
American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 137 Philip Sheldon Foner No preview available - 1975 |