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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Observations and reflections of a deer hunter / J. Frank Dobie (edited by Bertha McKee Dobie)
• Why I cursed God / Mody C. Boatright
• Photography and Texas traditions / Ronnie C. Tyler
• Return to Pin Hook / William A. Owens
• The folklore of Texas feuds / C.L. Sonnichsen
• Folksongs and family traditions / Patrick B. Mullen
• Revive us again / Joyce Gibson Roach
• Paisanos at Alpine / Elton R. Miles
• From amnesia to illegitimacy: the soap opera as contemporary folklore / Sarah Greene
• More of the word on the Brazos / J. Mason Brewer
• From folk to hillbilly to country: the coming of age of America's rural music / Bill C. Malone
• Horse penning: Southeast Texas, 1913 / Bill Brett
• San Jacinto, as she was: or what really happened on the plon of St. Hyacinth on a hot April afternoon in 1836 / R. Henderson Shuffler
• Singing all day and dinner on the grounds / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Contributors
• TFS History
• Index.

Author/Creator:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 , author

Boatright, Mody C. (Mody Coggin), 1896-1970 , author

Tyler, Ronnie C. , author

Owens, William A. , author

Sonnichsen, C.L. , author

Mullen, Patrick B. , author

Roach, Joyce Gibson , author

Miles, Elton, 1917-1995 , author

Greene, Sarah , author

Brewer, J. Mason , author

Malone, Bill C. , author

Brett, Bill, 1922-2002 , author

Shuffler, R. Henderson , author

Wittliff, William D. , designer

Custom Bookbinders , binder, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/bnd

Fine Paper Company , paper

Lucas and Clark Typesetting , typesetter

Capital Printing Company , printer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt

Rare Book Room Memorial Donations

Lewisville Public Library , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr

Rare Book Room Donation

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Observations & reflections on Texas folklore [by Abernethy, F.E.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 37

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

Printed books — United States — Texas — Austin — 20th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Copy 2) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Copy 2) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Copy 2) bound in red publisher's cloth with black titles. Retains original dust jacket.
(Copy 2) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Three original Pictures removed from book, (possibly of Martin Shockley and wife attending an outdoor book reading) and placed in Separated Materials file.
(Copy 3) Gift : Lewisville Public Library, October 2004.

Physical Description:

viii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.37

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

73161293

OCLC Numbers:

651298