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Table of Contents:

• John A. Lomax / J. Frank Dobie
• Cowboy Lingo / John A. Lomax
• The cowboy: his cause and cure / Eugene Manlove Rhodes
• The American cowboy / Andy Adams
• The cowboy's code / Paul Patterson
• The cowboy enters the movies / Mody C. Boatright
• Billy the Kid, hired gun or hero / John O. West
• Laureates of the Western range / Everett A. Gillis
• J. Frank Dobie on folklore / passages collected by William D. Wittliff
• The hat-in-mud tale / Jan H. Brunvard
• The baby-switching story / James T. Bratcher
• Saved from a bullet: miraculous escapes from death / John Q. Anderson
• Tobacco and longevity / J. T. McCullen jr.
• The sanctified sisters / A. L Bennett
• Running the fox / Francis E. Abernethy
• The charcoal burner / E.J. Rissmann
• Creeping ignorance on poke sallet / James W. Byrd
• The penny dreadful as a folksong / James Ward Lee
• The ballad of Bob Williams / Jack Solomon
• Buckwheat cakes, 1898 Variety / Roger P. McCutcheon

• Jung on myth and the mythic / Wilson M. Hudson
• Contributors
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Hudson, Wilson Mathis, 1907-2002 , editor

Contributors:

Maxwell, Allen, 1915-2012 , editor

Shockley, Martin , honouree

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

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The sunny slopes of long ago [by Hudson, W.M.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 33

Subjects:

Folklore — West (U.S.)

Cowboys — West (U.S.)

West (U.S.) — Social life and customs

Folklore

Cowboys

Manners and customs

West United States

Genres:

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

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Copy 2) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Copy 2) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Copy 2) bound in yellow publisher's cloth with black and gilt titles. Retains original dust jacket.
(Copy 2) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Copy 3) Gift : Lewisville Public Library, October 2004.

Physical Description:

viii, 204 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.33

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

65024930

OCLC Numbers:

327110