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Mountaineers Are Always Free : Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon /

"The West Virginia University Mountaineer isn't just a mascot: it's a symbol of West Virginia history and identity that's embraced throughout the state. Folklorist Rosemary Hathaway explores the figure's early history as a backwoods trickster, its deployment in emerging mass...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hathaway, Rosemary V. (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: West Virginia University Press
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The origins of the Mountaineer
  • From slouch hat to coonskin cap: The hillbilly mountaineer versus the frontiersman
  • The rifle and the beard: The WVU Mountaineer in the 1960s
  • Policing the student body: "Mountain Dears" and (sexy) girls with guns
  • Inclusion, exclusion, and the twenty-first-century Mountaineer.