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Box 2

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Collection of legends about place names, 1960-2005

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: FA 06 Series 8
Scope and Contents Numerous legends currently filed in this section do not actually describe the naming of a place. Those that remain include a substantial concentration in Utah and other parts of the intermountain West, including a great many from Star Valley, Wyoming (some brought into this collection by Nancy Kay Wolfley from a 1951 collection by a University of Wyoming extension). Some legends are in historic times, others prehistoric or legendary. Many center on puns, often employing nonstandard English...
Dates: 1960-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / FA 06, Collection of etiological legends

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