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• Goin' home with the Dasypus Novemcinctus the mystique of the armadillo / by Hermes Nye
• The home place / by Martha Emmons
• A place against the sky / by Martha Emmons
• My favorite Texan / Mrs. John Q. Anderson
• Love among the elephant ears and other true stories / by Al Lowman
• Bill Warren of the Big Thicket / By Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller
• A tale of not so long ago / June R. Welch
• Night Horse Nightmare / Paul Patterson
• Texas country schoolteachers: living proof of a legend / by Lou Rodenberger
• Legal lore from the courthouse / William N. Stokes Jr.
• Persimmon beer / by R.L. Cowser
• A letter from the long circle / by Wayne Echols
• The glamour of the gay night life the classic honky tonk / James Ward Lee
• How to have, to hold or free oneself of a lover / by Dolores L. Latorre
• Pecos Bill: His genesis and creators / by James M. Day
• The vampire in an age of technology / by Leslie M. Thomson
• Pull rings, kidney machines, and the oral tradition / by Lawrence Clayton
• Folklorish remnants of peyote ceremonialism / by Ernestine P. Sewell and Charles E. Linck
• Animal metaphors and verbal abuse social relations and values among german speaking farmers on cypress creek, Kerr County / by Glen E. Lich
• Within the walls Texas prison folklore / by Martha Anne Turner

• Oil field jokes from the Llano Estacado / by JIm Harris
• Happy Jack and the booger man / by Roy W. Lawson
• When you call me that, smile! or folklore, ethology, and communication / by Francis Edward Abernethy
• Folk stories from the Elmdale community / by Nancy Patrick
• Piecing patches and quilting up a storm / by Gail Y. Litton
• Chronological and Bibliographical Listings of Texas Folklore Society Publications / by Herbert C. Arbuckle III.

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Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Nye, Hermes , author

Cox, Sid , author

Emmons, Martha , author

Anderson, Mrs. John Q. , author

Lowman, Al , author

Loughmiller, Lyn , author.n.

Welch, June R , author

Patterson, Paul , author

Rodenberger, Lou , author

Stokes, William N. , author

Cowser, R. L., Jr , author

Echols, Wayne , author

Lee, James Ward , author

Latorre, Dolores L., 1903-1999 , author

Day, James M. , author

Thompson, Leslie M. , author

Clayton, Lawrence , author

Sewell, Ernestine P.

Linck, Charles E. , author

Lich, Glen E. , author

Turner, Martha Ann , author

Harris, Jim , author

Lawson, Roy W. , author

Patrick, Nancy , author

Litton, Gail Y. , author

Arbuckle, Herbert C.

Shockley, Martin , honouree

E-Heart 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. 44

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

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

General Notes:

(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Bound in red illustrated publisher's cloth with white and black titles.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Order form for book housed in Separated Materials, Object Files.

Physical Description:

xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.44

ISBNs:

0935014039

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

82070089

OCLC Numbers:

8965354