Levette J Davidson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3626437 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Levette J Davidson |
| NOMBRES | Levette J |
| APELLIDO | Davidson |
| FIRMA | DAVIDSON L J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Denver |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 112 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1929 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Superstitions of Theater and Circus
Folk Beliefs from Southern Indiana
Rattlesnakes
More United States Air Force Slang
Hot-Rodders' Jargon Again
The Teaching of Folklore
El Folklore en Los Estados Unidos de Norteamerica
U.s. 40
Henry R. Wagner's The Plains and the Rockies
Street-Name Patterns in Denver
AUTUMN OF 1858 some of the Pikes Peak gold prospectors decided to winter at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.Although they were merely squatters on Indian territory they staked out a tract of land at the junction of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, and on November 6 proceeded to map in gridiron form, the first streets of what later became one of the central parts of Denver, Colorado. 1 They named their creation Auraria, after the Georgia h…
Westward the Briton
The Bonanza Trail
Songs of the Papago, from the Archive of the American Folksong, Aafs L31; Songs of the Nootha and Quilente, Aafs L32; And Songs of the Menominee, Mandan and Hidatsa, Aafs L33
Artists and Illustrators of the Old West
The Description for this book, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900, will be forthcoming
Superstitions Collected in Denver, Colorado
Primitive Heritage
The World's Great Folktales
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen
Money Mountain
The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, Volume I
Sand in the Bag, and Other Folk Stories of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
A Mirror for Americans
Smoky Mountain Country
The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs
Quest of the Snowy Cross
The Science of Culture
Charles Goodnight
Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest
Stampede to Timberline
This book includes the story of 240 of Colorado's mining camps, with emphasis on the human side. The men who swarmed to the mountains to find precious metal came in successive waves from the late 1850s on, combing the gulches, scrambling over the passes and climbing the peaks. Their story is full of adventurous chances, lucky strikes, boom conditions, reckless spending, banditry, claim jumping, railroad wars and labor troubles. The author searche…
A Literary History of Southern California
Artists and Illustrators of the Old West
The Description for this book, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900, will be forthcoming
The Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases
Money Mountain
The Carbonate Camp Called Leadville
Wyoming
Mining Expressions Used in Colorado
U.s. 40
The Bonanza Trail
The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs
Quest of the Snowy Cross
The Wildest of the West
A Guide to American Folklore
Some Current Folk Gestures and Sign Languages
FEW STUDENTS of culture would deny that linguistic communication by spoken words and the written symbols for them is man's fundamental implement for group life. Signs and gestures have, however, been used from earliest recorded times as a substitute for speech or in order to supplement it.1 Even today social relationships are facilitated by such nonvocal communication; and signs are used in place of words in many occupations where speech sounds w…
Rocky Mountain Cities
Gold Rush
American Fiction, 1774-1850
Folk Laughter on the American Frontier
America's Sheep Trails
Rocky Mountain Tales
The Naming of Colorado's Towns and Cities
ANY of the names scattered over the tourist's map of or listed under Colorado in the United States Official Postal Guide, suggest the parts played in the history of this region by Indians; by Spanish explorers and Spanish-American settlers; by French, English, and United States trappers and Indian traders; by miners; and by the pioneer leaders in town building and in government. Other names characterize the physical features of town sites or thei…
Mining Expressions Used in Colorado
Sugar Beet Language
LTHO the production of beet sugar may still be considered an infant industry in the United States, young in years and somewhat dependent upon protection, its complexity and its increasing magnitude arrest attention. Much investigation has been devoted to the agricultural, engineering, and economic problems involved; but linguistic students have neglected the special vocabularies which have grown up among the many people working with sugar beets.'…
The Naming of Colorado's Towns and Cities
ANY of the names scattered over the tourist's map of or listed under Colorado in the United States Official Postal Guide, suggest the parts played in the history of this region by Indians; by Spanish explorers and Spanish-American settlers; by French, English, and United States trappers and Indian traders; by miners; and by the pioneer leaders in town building and in government. Other names characterize the physical features of town sites or thei…
The Literature of the Rocky Mountain West, 1803-1903
Journal Article The Literature of the Rocky Mountain West, 1803–1903. Selected and edited by Levette J. Davidson and Prudence Bostwick. (Caldwell: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1939. 449 pp. Bibliography and appendix. $5.00.) Get access Harold A. Blaine Harold A. Blaine Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 26, Issue 4, March 1940, Pages 587–588, https://do…
Westernisms
The Humboldt, Highroad of the West
Montana
Mormon Songs
Sam Slick in Texas
From Hell to Breakfast
Rocky Mountain Tales
Rocky Mountain Tales. Edited by Levette J. Davidson and Forrest Blake. (Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. xiv + 302 pp. Illustrations and index. $3.00.) Get access V. L. O. Chittick V. L. O. Chittick Reed College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 34, Issue 3, December 1947, Pages 499–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/1898125 Published: 01 December 1947
Montana Margins
"A Ballad of the Wyoming "Rustler War
The Big Bonanza
North Carolina Folklore. Vol. 1, No. 1, June, 1948
Wyoming
Rocky Mountain Tales
San Francisco
Fire
Kentucky Mountain Ballads
White Versions of Indian Myths and Legends
Recent Folk Song Albums
Twentieth Century Minstrel
Across the Wide Missouri
Four White Horses and a Brass Band
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