A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore

A Civil War Treasury Of Tales, Legends, and FolkloreAuthor: B.A. BotkinTitle: A Civil War Treasury Of Tales, Legends, and FolklorePublication: Random HouseEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Published by Random House, 1960. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with price clipped on left flap, small scrape on top right corner of front cover, and shelf/edgewear. Seller ID: 344135Subject: History

B. A. Botkin was a college professor, folklorist, and researcher who was at various times national folklore editor for the Federal Writers' Project, Library of Congress Fellow in Folklore, and chief of the Archive of American Folk Song. He compiled and edited more than a dozen volumes of American folklore, among them A Treasury of American Folklore, Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, and compilations of regional folklore from various areas, including New England, the South, and the West.

Stephen Cushman is a professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle and other works.