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9781574411065 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago

  • "Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago," was the favorite toast of John A. Lomax, co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society, which lends its name to this volume which opens with J. Frank Dobie's sketch of Lomax. It is followed by Lomax's own "Cowboy Lingo," found among Dobie's papers, and by two other articles on the cowboy by men whose names ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781574411065 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
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  • Local release date: 28/09/2000
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  • Categories: Folklore, myths & legends [JFHF]
9781574411072 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Singers And Storytellers

  • Most of the essays among the twenty-nine making up this collection salute taletellers, furnishing demonstrations by way of tall tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, and superstitions and folk medicine. Add tales of outlaws, buried-treasure searches, ethnic lore localized in the ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781574411072 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
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9781574411089 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Healer of Los Olmos and Other Mexican Lore

  • This volume contains Ruth Dodson's many stories of Don Pedrito Jaramillo: The Curandero of Los Olmos; in addition Soledad Perez offers his Mexican Folklore from Austin; Wilson Hudson and J. Frank Dobie add to the richness of this collection. Jose Cisneros provided the illustrations. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.
  • ISBN-13: 9781574411089 (Paperback)
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9781574411096 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Folk Travelers

  • Ballads, Tales, and Talk
  • A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie's chapter on "The Traveling Anecdote." Also included are Roy Bedichek on "Folklore in Natural History;" "The Names of Western Wild Animals," by George D. Hendricks; "Bonny Barbara Allen," by Joseph W. Hendren; "Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other Motifs in Oil," ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781574411096 (Paperback)
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9781574411102 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Golden Log

  • Like the more than a dozen other contributions in this volume, "The Golden Log" typifies the combined universality and fresh and authentic regional flavor of southwestern lore and legend. The Texas Folklore Society offers these tales of early Texas days, told as they were told of old.
  • ISBN-13: 9781574411102 (Paperback)
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9781574410600 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Tire Shrinker to Dragster

  • The title of this collection denotes a span from the horse-drawn vehicles with steel tires that had to be shrunk down occasionally, to the cars that accelerate to unbelievable speeds on a drag strip. Society members like to look back at old customs and beliefs but they are quite willing to take into account that urbanization and engineering do not ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781574410600 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 30/07/1998
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  • Categories: Local history [WQH]USA [1KBB]
9781574410570 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Diamond Bessie & the Shepherds

  • In the 1860s and 1870s, luxury river boats brought U. S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes; financier Jay Gould; writers Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman; and actor Maurice Barrymore, the father of John, Ethel, and Lionel, to "Queen City of the Cypress"--Jefferson, Texas. Among lesser known visitors was Abe Rothschild and his ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781574410570 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 28/10/1985
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