Voodoo priests, noble savages, and Ozark Gypsies [[electronic resource] ] : the life of folklorist Mary Alicia Owen / / Greg Olson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462164703321
• Autore: Olson Greg <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia [Mo.] ; ; London, : University of Missouri Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8262-7295-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Collana: Missouri biography series
• Disciplina: 398.092
• Soggetti: Folklorists - Missouri; Women folklorists - Missouri; Women - Missouri - Saint Joseph; Women authors, American - Missouri; Women intellectuals - Missouri - Saint Joseph; Electronic books.; Missouri Biography; Saint Joseph (Mo.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Queen City of the West, 1850-1860 -- 2. "Our unhappy country," 1860-1870 -- 3. Literary life, 1870-1890 -- 4. "White Voodoo," 1889-1891 -- 5. "A folklorist born, not made," 1891-1895 -- 6. Noble savages and Ozark Gypsies, 1894-1900 -- 7. Vanishing Indians, 1900-1904 -- 8. "Road to Paradise," 1905-1935 -- Epilogue: "Ever towards the setting sun they push us".