Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners--those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility--and generosity.
Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners--those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility--and generosity.
