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Mountaineers are always free : heritage, dissent, and a West Virginia icon / Rosemary V. Hathaway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hathaway, Rosemary V., author.
- 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
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