Mountaineers are always free : heritage, dissent, and a West Virginia icon / Rosemary V. Hathaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hathaway, Rosemary V., author.

Contributor:

West Virginia University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School mascots.

West Virginia--History--20th century.

West Virginia.

West Virginia University--History.

West Virginia University.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Heritage, dissent, and a West Virginia icon

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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 media, and finally its long and sometimes conflicted career-beginning officially in 1937-as the symbol of West Virginia University"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781949199321

1949199320