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Table of Contents:

• Juneteenth / J. Mason Brewer
• Dyin' easy / Martha Emmons
• New Mexico witch tales / Ruth Laughlin Barker
• Five legends of the Southwest / Leon Denny Moses
• Folk-curing among the Mexicans / Ruth Dodson
• Among my people / Jovita González
• Mustang Gray: fact, tradition, and song / J. Frank Dobie
• The hermit of Las Vegas / Phil LeNoir
• Strap Buckner again / Florence Elberta Barns
• British ballads in Texas / Mabel Major
• Old-time white camp-meeting spirituals / Samuel E. Asbury and Henry E. Meyer.

Author/Creator:

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

Contributors:

Major, Mabel, 1893-1974

Weaver, Gustine Courson, 1873-1942 , donor

Texas Folklore Society , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

University of Texas Press , printer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt

Weaver Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Tone the bell easy [by Dobie, J.F.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 10

Subjects:

Legends — Southwest, New

African Americans — Folklore

Superstition

Folk songs, American

Ballads, English — Texas

Legends

African Americans

Ballads, English

New Southwest

Texas

Genres:

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

General Notes:

Emblem of the Texas Folk-lore Society on t.p.
"British ballads in Texas. By Mabel Major": p. [131]-168.
"Eighteenth annual meeting of the Texas Folk-lore Society": p. [186]-187.
"Printed by The University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
(Copy 2) Transfer: Demonstration School of the North Texas State Teacher's College, April 2005.
(Copy 3) Gift: Mrs. Gustine Courson Weaver, 1941
(Copy 2) Rebound in red library buckram with gilt spine titles.
(Copy 3) Bound in red limp paper covers with black lettering and a line drawing of a road-runner on front cover.
(Copy 3) Good condition.
(Copy 2) Former call number: 398 D65t
(Copy 3) Mrs. Weaver's pictorial bookplate on inside front cover.

Physical Description:

199 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.10

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

a 33001135 (i.e., a33001135)

OCLC Numbers:

1904196