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Texas folk and folklore / edited by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson [and] Allen Maxwell ; drawings by José Cisneros.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 26Publication details: Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1954.Description: xv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398
Contents:
From the Brazos Bottom / A. W. Eddins -- Juneteenth / J. Mason Brewer -- From a Texas household: Mrs Russell's stories / Bertha McKee Dobie -- Ratoncito Pérez / Soledad Pérez -- The frog's courting / L. W. Payne, Jr. -- Treasure legends of McMullen County J. Frank Dobie -- Stampede Mesa / John R. Craddock -- The deathless pacing white stallion / J. Frank Dobie -- The legend of Sam Bass / Walter Prescott Webb -- The ghosts of Lake Jackson / Bertha McKee Dobie -- Mexican ghosts from El Paso / Charles L. Sonnichsen -- The ghost nun / Ruth Dodson -- The weeping woman / Soledad Pérez -- Songs the cowboys sing John R. Craddock -- Some Texas folk songs / William A. Owens -- Verses de los bandidos / J. Frank Dobie -- El toro moro / Frank Goodwyn -- Corrido de Kansas / Brownie McNeill -- El controbado del Paso / Brownie McNeill -- Deportados / Paul S. Taylor -- Follow the drinking gourd / H. B. Parks -- Six negro songs from the Colorado Valley / Gates Thomas -- Some Texas spirituals / Mary Virginia Bales -- Sin-killer's sermon / John A. Lomax -- The cowboy dance / John R. Craddock -- The snap party in Mills County / Mae Featherstone -- "Hoping out" in east Texas / Guy Kirtley -- Rope-jumping rhymes / Violet West Sone -- Children's games in Fredericksburg / Julia Estill -- Familiar sayings of old-time Texans / Mary Jourdan Atkinson -- Grandma's sayings / A. W. Eddins -- Old-time negro proverbs / J. Mason Brewer -- Dichos from Austin / Soledad Pérez -- The human comedy in folk superstitions / Tressa Turner -- Ranch remedies / Frost Woodhull -- The curandero of Los Olmos / Ruth Dodson -- Susto / Soledad Pérez -- Folklore of Texas plants / Sadie Hatfield -- Texas reptiles in popular belief / John K. Strecker -- The folklore of Texas birds / John K. Strecker -- The paisano's cactus corral / J. Frank Dobie -- Folklore in natural history / Roy Bedichek -- Paul Bunyan: oil man / John Lee Brooks -- Pipeline diction / Orlan L. Sawey -- Oil patch talk / James W. Winfrey -- Aunt Cordie's ax and other motifs in oil / Mody C. Boatright
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Item type Home library Collection Class number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode
Books Books VWML Nye Gift GO 25 (32) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only third printing from 1974. 8001

Drawings by José Cisneros

Includes bibliographical references.

From the Brazos Bottom / A. W. Eddins -- Juneteenth / J. Mason Brewer -- From a Texas household: Mrs Russell's stories / Bertha McKee Dobie -- Ratoncito Pérez / Soledad Pérez -- The frog's courting / L. W. Payne, Jr. -- Treasure legends of McMullen County J. Frank Dobie -- Stampede Mesa / John R. Craddock -- The deathless pacing white stallion / J. Frank Dobie -- The legend of Sam Bass / Walter Prescott Webb -- The ghosts of Lake Jackson / Bertha McKee Dobie -- Mexican ghosts from El Paso / Charles L. Sonnichsen -- The ghost nun / Ruth Dodson -- The weeping woman / Soledad Pérez -- Songs the cowboys sing John R. Craddock -- Some Texas folk songs / William A. Owens -- Verses de los bandidos / J. Frank Dobie -- El toro moro / Frank Goodwyn -- Corrido de Kansas / Brownie McNeill -- El controbado del Paso / Brownie McNeill -- Deportados / Paul S. Taylor -- Follow the drinking gourd / H. B. Parks -- Six negro songs from the Colorado Valley / Gates Thomas -- Some Texas spirituals / Mary Virginia Bales -- Sin-killer's sermon / John A. Lomax -- The cowboy dance / John R. Craddock -- The snap party in Mills County / Mae Featherstone -- "Hoping out" in east Texas / Guy Kirtley -- Rope-jumping rhymes / Violet West Sone -- Children's games in Fredericksburg / Julia Estill -- Familiar sayings of old-time Texans / Mary Jourdan Atkinson -- Grandma's sayings / A. W. Eddins -- Old-time negro proverbs / J. Mason Brewer -- Dichos from Austin / Soledad Pérez -- The human comedy in folk superstitions / Tressa Turner -- Ranch remedies / Frost Woodhull -- The curandero of Los Olmos / Ruth Dodson -- Susto / Soledad Pérez -- Folklore of Texas plants / Sadie Hatfield -- Texas reptiles in popular belief / John K. Strecker -- The folklore of Texas birds / John K. Strecker -- The paisano's cactus corral / J. Frank Dobie -- Folklore in natural history / Roy Bedichek -- Paul Bunyan: oil man / John Lee Brooks -- Pipeline diction / Orlan L. Sawey -- Oil patch talk / James W. Winfrey -- Aunt Cordie's ax and other motifs in oil / Mody C. Boatright

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