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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The East Texas communal hunt / by Francis Edward Abernethy
• Folk medicine in Denton county today: or can dermatology replace dish rags? / by Paul W. Schedler
• The frontier preacher as a character type in methodist autobiographies / by Mary Sue Carlock
• The day they shot Bonnie and Clyde / by Carrol Y. Rich
• Diesel smok and dangerous curves: folklore of the trucking industry / by Joyce Gibson Roach
• Tales of the cattle trail / by Jimmy M. Scaggs
• Origins of "Sir Patrick Spens" / by Norman L. McNeil
• The Gatesville murhter: the origin and evolution of a ballad / by John Q. Anderson
• Old Fort Leaton: a saga of the Big Bend / by Elton Miles
• Hog killing and soap making / by E.J. Rissman
• Cabeza de Vaca was a piker / by W. H. Hutchinson
• Barbara Ellen and the Lincoln Continental: or , the commercial folk festival / by Hermes Nye
• Classical and literary motifs in TV and Movie westerns / by George D. Hendricks
• Myth and folklore in The Ordways / by Patrick B. Mullen
• The Huapango: a dithyrambic festival / by Henry Schmidt
• Rats, cats and abandoned fields / by E. Paul Durrenberger
• Contributors
• Index.

Contributors:

Hudson, Wilson Mathis, 1907-2002

Abernethy, Francis Edward , author

Schedler, Paul W. , author

Carlock, Mary Sue , author

Rich, Carol Y. , author

Roach, Joyce Gibson , author

Skaggs, Jimmy M. , author

McNeil, Norman L. , author

Anderson, John Q. , author

Miles, Elton, 1917-1995 , author

Rissman, E.J. , author

Hutchinson, W.H. , author

Nye, Hermes , author

Hendricks, George David , author

Mullen, Patrick B. , author

Schmidt, Henry , author

Durrenberger, E. Paul , author

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Encino Press , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 35

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

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

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General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Removed from front of copy 3:"Books from the Encino Press"catalog placed in Separated Materials file.

Physical Description:

ix, 171 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.35

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

72190335

OCLC Numbers:

410201