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Table of Contents:

• Preface / Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, Allen Maxwell
• The legend of Gregorio Cortez / Americo Paredes
• The child ballad in the Middle West and lower MIssissippi Valley / Browne McNeil
• Six tales from Mexico / Riley Aiken
• The Western bad man as hero / Mody C. Boatright
• Animal tailsL function and folklore / Roy Bedichek
• Br'er Rabbit watches out for himself in Mexico / J. Frank Dobie
• Recollections of an itinerant folklorist / Stith Thompsom
• Dialogue in folktale and song / R. C. Stephenson
• The twelve truths in the Spanish Southwest / Wilson M. Hudson
• To whom God wishes to give: a tale of old Mexico in English ballad stanzas / Joseph W. Hendren
• Tales of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railroad / Victor J. Smith
• Christ in the Big Bend / Elton R. Miles
• The ghost of the Hutto ranch / John Q. Anderson
• Spanish folklore from South Texas / Alfredo R. Garcia
• Home remedies for arthritis / Walter Taylor
• Contributors.

Author/Creator:

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

Contributors:

Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999 , author

McNeil, Brownie , author

Aiken, Riley , author

Bedichek, Roy , author

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

Thompson, Stith , author

Hudson, Wilson M. , author

Hendren, Joseph W. , author

Smith, Victor J. , author

Miles, Elton, 1917-1995 , author

Anderson, John Q. , author

García, Alfredo R. , author

Taylor, Walter , author

Shockley, Martin , honouree

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

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mesquite and willow [by Boatright, M.C.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 27

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

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

PW-MT-F-B-C-Ep

General Notes:

Includes index.
(Copy 4) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Copy 5) Gift: Lewisville Public Library, October 2004.
Copy: ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Copy 4 bound in green publisher's cloth with dark green titles and cover decoration. Retains original dust jacket.
(Copy 4) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.27

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

56012566

OCLC Numbers:

1034958820
21934977 [Invalid]