Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions: Theatrical Folkways of Rural Missouri, 1885-1910

by Robert Karl Gilmore and Robert K. Gilmore

Book Overview

"Ozark Batpizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is a significant work dealing with a little-studied aspect of Ozark and American folk tradition. As such it is of value to folklorists, social and cultural historians, and anthropologists, and will remain so for some time to come. It is well written, superbly researched....What Gilmore does is present the typical in such a way that it is fascinating and, in so doing, tells more about Ozark life than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806118547
• ISBN13: 9780806118543
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.