by Richard M. Dorson, edited by James P. Leary '72 (University of Wisconsin Press)
Folklorist Dorson did extensive field work in the U.P. in the 1940s and wrote about the tales of
the area he heard from loggers, miners, sailors, trappers and townsfolk.
This new edition, which
features an introduction by Leary and an appendix of additional tales, restores the timeless folklore
classic. The" Yooper" area is home to a diversified culture of indigenous people and Old World immigrants, from Ojibwes, French Canadians, Finns, Cornish, Poles, Italians, Slovenians and others. The diverse inhabitants, the book notes, have created tales populated with tricksters, outlaws, cunning trappers and poachers, and eccentric bosses of the mines and lumber camps.
(September 2008)
