The title and the idea for this book began in 1958, when Mody Boatright first published his essay, The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore.” What Mody identified was a long established form
Twenty-five years ago, Jerry B. Lincecum, Edward H. Phillips, and Peggy A. Redshaw published Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist. Collated from four overlapping memoirs, some not previously