Red boards with gold lettering. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. The dust jacket has light fading and wear to spine. Very good condition overall. The colorful stuff of Western American folklore.

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Title: The Code of the West
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1982
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0253313872
ISBN 13: 9780253313874
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Jesse James, General Custer, and Casey Jones. The Pony Express, The Momon handcart odyssey to Zion. The Forty-Niners pick-and-shovel pilgrimage to Mammon. These are the colorful stuff of Western American folklore, part of an original and vital heritage passed on through songs, tales, and dime novels in the last century, and movies, advertising, and television serials in our own. In The Code of the West folklorist Bruce Rosenberg takes a look at some of the most durable legends of frontier days, explores the origins of their popularity, and deciphers the messages―or code―they communicate. What emerges is a fuller understanding of American culture as a whole, for Rosenberg shows us that American attitudes toward the West have always been linked to the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of the nation.

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