 | A Pioneer Songster : Texts from the Stevens-Douglass Manuscript of Western New York, 1841-1856 Folklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of the nineteenth century. Harold W. Thompson (1891-1963) was Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University and the first president of the New York Folklore Society. Edith E. Cutting is the author of several collections of New York State folklore, including Lore of an Adirondack County , also from Cornell. |
