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Submitted by BYU student Kathleen T. Sant for her Spring 1971 English 391 class. About the art of quilting and why it has been preserved. Contains a cover essay, informant lists, and informant items. Items include slides of various styles and types of quilting, such as special stitching and patterns.

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Submitted by BYU student Roderick Saxey for his Fall 1972 English 391 class. About the differences between mission experiences, mainly the use of priesthood power in the mission field. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include an improvised sacrament, elders blessing their broken car, elders cursing the city, Orson Hyde cursing Austria, Elders causing buildings destruction, elders confering preisthood on a fencepost, and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Daneen Scarborough for his/her Spring 1972 English 391 class. About Emma Ott Corbett Ray and Oop, and the stories about them that circulated about their town of Roberts, Idaho. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant abstract, and informant stories. Stories include her shooting ability, the white top buggy, her death, how her family made it out west, advocate for women's rights and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Robert C. Scott for his Fall 1971 English 391 class. About the stories of authority figures that boys between ages of eight and thirteen tell, and how it plays a role in forming their lives. Contains a cover essay, an autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant stories. Stories include toilet seat, lawman, it's coming, gladder, dirty boy, Mary's Duck, Miss mUffet, Barnacle Bill, Jones of the FBI, and more.

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Submitted by BYU student Sonja B. Searle for her 1966 class. About Permelia Emily Mecham, a woman who was born in 1867. Includes the autobiography of Permelia's hardships and various life events, from her childhood and the Mormon pioneers, to chores and her later work and family.

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Submitted by BYU student John Seymour for his 1969 class. About college students' local songs or bluegrass that they knew and performed for the collector, John Seymour. Contains an cover essay and informant items. Items include the songs Franklin D., She Might Find, Car Car, Baltimore Fire, Danger Waters, Geordie, and more.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Sylvia Shaw for her Summer 1971 English 391 class. About the unique subculture of cowboys and rodeos, and why some of their traditions and mannerisms are the way they are. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, autobiographical sketch, and informant items. Items include cowboy dress, cowboy lingo, Rodeo sayings and Expressions, Beliefs, Clown Jokes, Methods of Relieving Tension and Building confidence, Famous Folktaleks, Rounder Lore, and various Cowboy...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Royce Steward Shelley for his Fall 1972 English 391 class. About Timpanogas Cave and the various myths, folklore and stories that circulate around it. Contains a cover essay, preface, autobiographical sketch, list of informants and informant items. Items include stories about the polar bear, the dressed chicken, the praying hands, poison rock, the French chef, the tooth, french poodle, great heart of Timpanogas, the mouse, the carrot, the camel and the three wise...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Leonard Ki Shield for his Summer 1969 Folklore 391 class. About the old wooden wheels and their continued use in American society in the 1960s. Contains a cover essay, list of informants, an introduction and the styles of wagons and wheels in the United States. Styles for the wagon include large cross-country freight wagons, heavy duty work wagons, Narrow wheeled wagons, and more, wagon wheel styles include wide rim, standard rims, and medium rims, and decorative...

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Kathy Smead for her Winter 1976 English 392 class. About the unique subculture of law students at BYU, including things they say, their relationship with other BYU students, and more. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical essay, list of informants, bibliography, and informant items. Items include traditions such as brown bags, the order of the cuff, shaving, and more; initiation rites; superstitions; folklabels; folk heroes; proverbial sayings; myths; folktales;...