Richard Mercer Dorson

1916 - 1981

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Peasant customs and savage myths
5 editions - first published in 1968
The British folklorists
5 editions - first published in 1968
Studies in Japanese folklore
4 editions - first published in 1963
African folklore
4 editions - first published in 1972 Borrow
Buying the wind
4 editions - first published in 1964 Borrow
America begins
4 editions - first published in 1966
American folklore
3 editions - first published in 1959
Davy Crockett, American comic legend
3 editions - first published in 1939
Folklore research around the world
3 editions - first published in 1961
Negro tales from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Calvin, Michigan
3 editions - first published in 1958
American Negro folktales
3 editions - first published in 1967
America rebels
3 editions - first published in 1953
Folk legends of Japan
3 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow
Folklore and traditional history
2 editions - first published in 1973
Jonathan draws the long bow
2 editions - first published in 1946
Negro folktales in Michigan
2 editions - first published in 1956
Utah Mormons
2 editions - first published in 1900
American Folklore and the Historian
2 editions - first published in 1971
Aesopica
1 edition - first published in 1980
America begins; early American writing
1 edition - first published in 1950
America in legend: folklore from the colonial period to the present
1 edition - first published in 1973
America rebels; narratives of the patriots
1 edition - first published in 1973
Davy Crockett
1 edition - first published in 1993
Folklore and fakelore
1 edition - first published in 1976
Folklore and folklife, an introduction
1 edition - first published in 1972
Folklore: selected essays
1 edition - first published in 1972
Land of the millrats
1 edition - first published in 1981
Man and beast in American comic legend
1 edition - first published in 1982
Bloodstoppers & bearwalkers
1 edition - first published in 1952
Folklore and folklife
1 edition - first published in 1972 Borrow
Jonathan draws the long bow
1 edition - first published in 1946 Borrow

Places

United States, Michigan, America, Japan, New England, Africa, Afrique, Arkansas, Calumet Region (Ill. and Ind.), England, Great Britain, Upper Peninsula, États-Unis

People

Davy Crockett (1786-1836)

Time

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Revolution, 1775-1783, To 1783

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