Great Plains, Great Books: Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
July 31, 2007
Author: Welsch, Roger L. Published: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. As Nebraska's best-known folklorist today, Welsch has long kept his eye peeled and his ears open to the voices of people at the grassroots level. From them he has assembled a collection of tall tales, lies and comic descriptions of Plains life.
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