Building With Logs

by Jennifer Eastman Attebery

In "Building with Logs" Jennifer Eastman Attebery addresses aspects of New Western History by exploring how the log cabin myth is part of the larger myth of the Frontier West. She argues that scholars interested in understanding log construction must look beyond the myth for evidence of the log cabin's particular meanings within the communities that used log buildings in Idaho.

147 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Jennifer Eastman Attebery is professor of English at Idaho State University, where she teaches folklore and also chairs the Department of English and Philosophy. She has twice enjoyed sojourns in Sweden, in 1988 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at University of Gothenburg and in 2011 as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University. Attebery is the author of Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience. Her studies of Swedish culture in the Rocky Mountain West have also been published in Scandinavian Studies and Swedish-American Historical Quarterly.

Reviews

[Bryce Johnston · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhat slow of a read, but my first foray into folk architecture and very fascinating. Coming from a folklore background more focused on immaterial texts, the author gives a good background to the nature of her analysis and provides lots of good examples for aspects of log construction.