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 media, and finally its long and sometimes conflicted career-beginning officially in 1937-as the symbol of West Virginia University"--

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 01/27/2020
ISBN: 9781949199314
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d