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Table of Contents:

• Preface / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Folklore and me / John Graves
• From folk to popular song to folklore: the story of Bob Wills' San Antonio Rose / Charles R. Townsend
• The cowboys' Christmas ball: the historicity of a cowboy ballad / Connie Ricci
• Three corridos of the Big Bend / Elton Miles
• Cowboy and gaucho songs: a comparison / Lawrence Clayton and Rosita Chazarreta
• Heaven / James Lee Ward
• The old-time cowboy inside out / Paul Patterson
• The Gathering / Marguerite Nixon
• Mildew on elephant ears / Al Lowman
• Forty-two baptist kids and three baptist deacons: the saga of a Churching / William N. Stokes, Jr.
• Old army went to hell in 1958: Aggie war stories from the corps of cadets / Joe S. Graham
• Please drink the water: some curative mineral wells of Texas / Don R. Swadley
• It all wound up in bales / Ernest B. Speck
• Coyote: the suffering savior / Blake Burleson
• A Texas planked Pirogue: the caddo lake bateau / James Conrad and Thad Sitton.

Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Shockley, Martin , honouree

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 46

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Folklore

Manners and customs

Texas

Genres:

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

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General Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.
(Copy 3) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Copy 3) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Copy 3) bound in brown publisher's cloth with gilt titles. Retains original dust jacket.
(Copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

xii, 170 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.46

ISBNs:

0870742116 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

85014290

OCLC Numbers:

12238572