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Table of Contents:

• The golden log: an East Texas paradise lost / Francis Edward Abernathy
• Thirteen tales from Houston County / Theodore B. Brunner
• Homemade tales / Richard M. Rivers
• Joe Sap, wit and storyteller / A.L. Bennett
• Tarantula lore / Lois Brock
• The mystery of the five graves / John C. Myers
• The petroleum geologist: a folk image / Mody C. Boatright
• From Flygap to Whybark: some unusual place names / John Q. Anderson
• Cowboy comedians and horseback humorists / Paul Patterson
• Superstitions in Vermilion Parish / Elizabeth Brandon
• The changing concept of the Negro hero / Roger Abrahams
• Don Juan Zurumbete / Riley Aiken
• Work and Play on a border ranch / Rosalinda Gonzalez
• Cuentos de susto / Baldemar A Jimenez
• Contributors
• Index.

Author/Creator:

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

Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Abernethy, Francis Edward , author

Brunner, Theodore B. , author

Rivers, Richard M. , author

Bennett, A.L. , author

Brock, Lois , author

Anderson, John Q. , author

Patterson, Paul , author

Brandon, Elizabeth , author

Abrahams, Roger , author

Gonzalez, Rosalinda , author

Jimenez, Baldemar , author

Aiken, Riley , author

Hudson, Wilson M. , author

Maxwell, Allen , author

Rare Book Room Memorial Donations

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Southern Methodist University Press , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The golden log [by Boatright, M.C.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 31

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

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

General Notes:

Includes index.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) bound in yellow publisher's cloth with gilt titles. Retains original dust jacket.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.31

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

61017184

OCLC Numbers:

327033