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Beloved Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch explores our passion and love for dogs.

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The eternal question: fat and jolly, or skinny and mean. No problem! With the help of this book YOU can give every impression of being thin without going through the actual discomforts of BEING thin! Welsch's 24 steps to your inner skinny offer you the best of all worlds, all the advantages of being buff AND plump! At the same time!

Alcohol has been with us in many forms for thousands of years and yet it remains one of the least understood of foods. Roger Welsch has his own particular take on alcohol (as he does on almost everything else) and in this book explores the history, technology, hazards, and joys of drink. If you don't agree this is one of the best reads of the year, then Roger suggests that you pour yourself another drink and try reading it again!

Originally published: Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, c2006.

Roger Welsch's humorous take on his hahahaha Golden Years, a subject in which he now considers himself an expert. Portions of this book have been shared with friends facing medical problems and have each and every one found the humor encouraging and heartening. Anyone who is thinking about getting older will profit from a reading of this book...and of course anyone who is pretty much giving up might find something here that would change his mi...

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln and the author of more than forty books, including Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales and My Nebraska, both available in Bison Books editions.

Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln. He is a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning and the author of more than forty books, including Embracing Fry Bread: Confessions of a Wannabe, available from Bison Books.

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Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were, " says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." From yellowed newspapers, magazines, and forgotten Nebraska Federal Writers' Project files, well-known folklorist and humorist Welsch has produced a book to be treasured. Here are jokes, anecdotes, legends, tall tales, and lugubriously funny poems about the things that preoccupied the pioneer plainsman: weather extremes, soil quality, food and ...

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Folklore tells us something about almost every aspect of the life of the people. This rich and entertaining collection of Nebraska pioneer folklore, taken largely from the Nebraska Folklore Pamphlets issued by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, is intended first and foremost for the general reader, for the people whose heritage it is. Songs of trail and prairie and of the Farmers' Alliance, white man's yarns and Indian tales, pioneer N...

The Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawka Indians wages a battle for the return of their sacred Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing artifacts, reposing under glass in an eastern museum. Seven interlinked stories, beginning with a court battle in the year 2001 and going far back in time to the origin of the Bundle and the first Nehawka village on the Great Plains, explore a multilayered world. 7 illustrations. 304 pp.