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Jay Mechling is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of California-Davis. He won the 1998 Mary C. Turpie Prize from the American Studies Association and the 2006 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. He has served as the editor of Western Folklore and is the author of On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth (2001).