Popularizing Pennsylvania - Henry W. Shoemaker and the Progressive Uses of Folklore and History - Bog af Simon J. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

A biography of Pennsylvania's folklorist and pioneer of national conservation, Henry Shoemaker (1882-1958). He espoused the Progressivist belief that nature and folk cultures held vital, spiritual powers for a modern age, especially in America, where he sought a mythology to support nationalism.