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Table of Contents:

• Storytellers I have known / J. Frank Dobie
• The singer or the song / Mac Edward Leach
• some forms of the Mexican Cancion / Vicente T. Mendoza
• Folklore and history / America Paredes
• Don't look back / George D. Hendricks
• The oil promoter as trickster / Mody C. Boatright
• Folksay of Lawyers / Hermes Nye
• Feathered dualists / Haldeen Braddy
• Old Thurber / C. Richard King
• Ghost stories from a Texas ghost town / Tucker Sutherland
• Old days at Cold Spring / William Henry Hardin
• Prayer meeting at Persimmon College / Joseph T. McCuller, Jr.
• The frontier hero: refinement and definition / Robert H. Byington
• Belle Star and the biscuit dough / John Q. Anderson
• Legend of the Lad / Eleanor MItchel Bond
• Stories of ranch people / Stanley W. Harris
• Tall Timber Tales / Edwin W. Gaston, Jr.
• Anecdotes of two frontier preachers / Alva Ray Stephens
• Wolves, Foxes, hound dogs, and men / A. L. Miles
• The magic art of removing warts / Grace Pleasant Wellborn

• Owl-bewitchment in the lower Rio Grande Valley / Humberto Garza
• Tales of the Paisanos / Miriam W. Hiester
• Folkore of the German-Wends in Texas / George R. Nielson
• Tales the German Texans tell / Carolyn Mankin
• Tales of the lost nigger mine / Gayle L. Coe
• Family stories and sayings / Kim S. Garrett
• The origin of the word Gringo / Robert H. Fuson
• On Gringo, Greaser, and other neighborly names / Americo Paredes
• Contributors
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

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

Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Southern Methodist Press , publisher

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

Leach, MacEdward, 1896-1967 , author

Mendoza, Vicente T. , author

Paredes, Américo, 1915-1999 , author

Hendricks, George David , author

Nye, Hermes , author

Braddy, Haldeen , author

King, C. Richard, 1968- , author

Sutherland, Tucker , author

Hardin, William Henry , author

McCuller, Joseph T. , author

Byington, Robert H. , author

Anderson, John Q. , author

Bond, Eleanor Mitchell , author

Harris, Stanley W. , author

Gaston, Edwin W. , author

Stephens, Alva Ray , author

Miles, A.L. , author

Wellborn, Grace Pleasant , author

Garza, Humberto , author

Hiester, Miriam W. , author

Nielson, George R. , author

Mankin, Carolyn , author

Coe, Gayle L. , author

Garrett, Kim S. , author

Fuson, Robert H. , author

Rare Book Room Memorial Donations

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

Rare Book Room Donation

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Singers and storytellers [by Boatright, M.C.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 30

Subjects:

Tales — United States — Texas

Tales — Texas

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Tales

Folklore

Manners and customs

United States

Texas

Genres:

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

General Notes:

Includes index.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 6) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 6) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Bound in beige publisher's cloth with green titles. Retains original dust jacket.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Copy 7) Gift : Lewisville Public Library, October 2004.

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.30

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

60015894

OCLC Numbers:

327114