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Contains 12 Results:

Butts, Shirley

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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"An Adventure in Folklore"; Oral Tradition--folk poem, Indian stories told by whites, pioneer stories (release stipulation on last page); Payson, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Stevens, Gloria Down

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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"Some American Folk Songs"; Oral Tradition--folk songs (words and music); (Collected in) Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Ashton, Emma Rae

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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"Folklore Collecting Project"; Oral Tradition--proverbs, verbal charms and puzzles, rhymes, tall tales, folk speech, folk songs, jokes; Customary Lore and Behavior--superstitions, games (Informants include collector's parents: President (of Mormon Church) David 0. McKay and Emma Ray Riggs McKay) Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Bowthorpe, Kenneth

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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"Collection of Folklore in Jackson Hole" Oral Tradition--legend: Three Nephites; local legends; Human Condition--characters: Nick Wilson, "Snake River Charlie" Martin, Chief Washakie (Shoshoni)

Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Dates: 1947-1958

Butterfield, Alice

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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"Remembered Songs from Utah Families"; Oral Tradition--songs, folk stories; Midvale, Riverton, Copperton, and Alpine, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Florence, Penny

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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"Folklore Collecting Project"; Oral Tradition--folktales, folksongs, proverbs, folk speech, naming, verbal puzzles, rhymes, jokes; Customary Behavior--games, folk medicine, superstitions; (Informants from) Morgan, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Brighton, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Mortensen, J. Lynn

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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"Folklore Collecting Project" Oral Tradition--folk stories, Three Nephite legends, folk speech; Material Culture--folklife, foods, hand skills Customary Lore--folk beliefs, superstitions, dreams

Human Condition--relationship of Tooele settlers and Goshute Indians, mining lore and methods, Utah badmen, Bishop's Court (a way of deciding local affairs in 1850-1860); Salt Lake and Tooele Counties, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Rosenblatt, Stephen

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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"Collected Mining and Foundry Folklore"; Oral Tradition--songs; Customary Lore--superstitions.

Dates: 1947-1958

Russon, Bon Neta

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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"Folklore Miscellany: Lehi, Utah"; Oral Tradition--proverbs, knock knock stories, Moron stories, jump-rope rhymes, tongue twisters, autograph album verses, counting rhymes, slang, riddles, song parodies; Customary Behavior--children's games; Lehi, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Warburton, Joyce

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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"Collecting Project"; Oral Tradition--proverbs, rhymes, jokes, naming of Tooele and Skull Valley; Customary Lore and Behavior--folk medicine, dream beliefs; Human Condition--account of pioneer journey to Salt Lake, arriving October, 1849, and the early days in Tooele by Richard Warburton (author's great grandfather), Christmas in 1860's; Tooele County, Utah.

Dates: 1947-1958

Kennard, Leona D.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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"The Peep Stone Lady"; Oral Tradition--accounts of the Peep Stone Lady locating missing persons or animals; Logan, Utah and South-Eastern Idaho.

Dates: 1947-1958

Sprouse, Janet

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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"Tales of the Bear Lake Monster"; Oral Tradition--Indian legend, Mormon settler legend; Bear Lake Valley, Utah and Idaho.

Dates: 1947-1958