Legends and life in Texas : folklore from the Lone Star State, in stories and song /
There is sometimes a fine line between history and folklore. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society tells stories about real-life characters from Texas's history, as well as personal reflections about life from diverse perspectives throughout the last century. The first section covers l...
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| Language: | English |
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
[2017].
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| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;
no. 72. |
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Table of Contents:
- "Legendary" Texans
- Jacob Brodbeck: the first man to fly /Jerry Young
- Hugh 'Hackberry Slim' Johnson, II / Jo Virgil
- The grave of the lonesome cowboy: Mitchell Crossing Ranch, McCulloch County, Texas / Barbara Finlay
- Georgianna Knowles: borderland bullfighter / Charlie T. McCormick
- Sam Houston was not born in Texas, and other disturbing facts / Vicky J. Rose
- Did David Crockett really stop in Bastrop? some facts and folklore / Mariann Laughlin
- Myth, folklore, and misconception in the 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker / Paul H. Carlson
- The legend of Old Casuse and his paint horse gallows / Michael Collins
- The hermit: a study of the legend central to Cascade Caverns in Boerne, Texas / Erin Marissa Russell and Matt Gibson
- A British adventure in the year of the Texas centennial / Adam Cree
- The family saga of Mody Boatright / James Mody Bridges
- The legacy of John O. West: Mexican-American folklore from the 20th to the 21st century / Meredith E. Abarca and Lucy Fischer-West
- Texas folk song and dance
- Here a ditty, there a ditty, everywhere a little ditty / Karen Reinartz Haile
- Come on-a my house: a look at the house and ranch dances of Texas / Carol Bolland
- Yodels, cattle calls, and other melodious sounds / Jean Granberry Schnitz
- Boosting the Eden Bulldogs Margaret A. Cox
- Refrain from prison: how the Texas prison music program connected the incarcerated and 'the free' / Ruth Massingill, Mel Strait, and Emily Jones
- Life in Texas as we remember it
- Our pre-teen silver screen dreams and pied-piper Melton Barker, an itinerant filmmaker / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan
- Visiting in the 1930s / W. Floyd Elliott
- Whiskey stills in the hills / Lee Haile
- Cooking with gas: the quiet revolution / Charles Williams
- Homestead heritage farms: a step back in time in central Texas / Charles B. Martin
- Old cars driving around Austin: boyhood adventures behind the wheel / John Meadows
- Before I was five / Elizabeth Harris Duncan.