Mountaineers are always free : heritage, dissent, and a West Virginia icon /
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.