Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners--those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility--and generosity.
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Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners--those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility--and generosity.
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Seller's Description:
Very good hardback in very good dustjacket. Gift inscription on endpaper, otherwise interior is clean & bright. Foxing along top page-ends. Boards have light shelf wear. Price-clipped dustjacket shows moderate edge wear & some bumping to corners. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 207 p. Audience: General/trade.
