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Table of Contents:

• Preface / Francis Edward Abernethy
• The paisano's cactus corral / J. Frank Dobie
• The Anasazi / John Neal Phillips
• Harm and the bear / Carolyn M. Smyrl
• I remember things / Ross Estes
• Mamie Tobar's tales of treasure / As told by Gertrude Bluntzer to Ruth G. Wright
• Plantin' by the Moon / Bill Brett
• Going to press in Alto / Ben F. Hobbs
• The petrified lovers of Pecos: vintage yellow journalism / Wilma Roberts
• All the news in fits of print: an examination of Nigerian newspaper headlines / Bernth Lindfors
• Names are news / C. Richard King
• Minstrels at the marketplace: or, what the traveling texan found for entertainment in ant-bellum New Orleans / Peter M. Stephen
• Country store / Nancy Wells
• The bachelor heater / Archer Fullingim
• Ticks on catfish / Ann Miller Carpenter
• Fact and fiction in three lomax outlaw songs / Lawrence Clayton
• Home and farm remedies and charms in a German manuscript from a Texas ranch / Christine Boot
• Sunday's cock fight / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Talking and touching: a function of story telling / Faye Leeper
• The pet rock in American folklore / Olivia Murray Nichols

• The driver's license: emblem of a modern rite of passage / Leslie M. Thompson
• The ethological approach to folklore / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Publishers of Texas Folklore / Willie Earl Tindall and Lee Sullenger.

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Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Roach, Linda Miller , illustrator

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

Phillips, John Neal, 1949- , author

Smyrl, Carolyn M. , author

Estes, Ross , author

Wright, Ruth G. , author

Brett, Bill, 1922-2002 , author

Hobbs, Bill , author

Roberts, Wilma , author

Lindfors, Bernth , author

King, C. Richard, 1968- , author

Stephan, Peter M. , author

Wells, Nancy , author

Fullingim, Archer , author

Carpenter, Ann Miller , author

Clayton, Lawrence , author

Boot, Christine , author

Leeper, Faye , author

Nichols, Olivia Murray , author

Thompson, Leslie M. , author

Tindall, Willie Earl , author

Sullenger, Lee , author

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 41

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore

Texas

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) bound in beige publisher's cloth with brown titles.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

ix, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.41

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

78103989

OCLC Numbers:

4057287