A01=Walter Blair
american heroes
Author_Walter Blair
babe the blue ox
Category=DSB
Category=FN
columbus
cowboy
daniel boone
davy crockett
discovery
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
exploration
folk narrative
folklore
frontier
heroism
history
humor
john henry
johnny appleseed
keelboat
legend
masculinity
mike fink
mountain men
nonfiction
paul bunyan
pecos bill
santa fe trail
slavery
steamboat
strength
tall tales
wild west
Product details
- ISBN 9780226055961
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 14 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 1987
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry have all become heroes of American folklore. Some of them, like Crokett, were real, but all have become the subject of tall tales. This is a folksy history of the United States, told as if the characters were all real. This panoramic (if completely untrue) history begins with Columbus. . . . En route to its end in the 1940s (where traditional American heroes are enlisted to fight in World War II), it covers the great and small events of our national history, including the overlooked, but important ones, such as the invention of the prairie dog."—Washington Post Book World
