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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

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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