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3 - Western folk traditions: from colonization to Mark Twain and the San Francisco Circle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

By
John Dudley
Edited by
Steven Frye
Steven Frye
Affiliation:
California State University, Bakersfield
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West , pp. 20 - 31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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