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Summary:

A collection of Mexican folk tales.

Table of Contents:

• Prefatory wisdom / J. Frank Dobie
• A pack load of Mexican tales / Riley Aiken
• The wonderful Chirrionera / Dan Storm
• Br'er Coyote / Sarah S. McKellar
• The bullet-swallower / Jovita González
• Tales from San Elizario / Josefina Escajeda
• The metamorphosis of a folk tale / Elizabeth W. DeHuff
• How the Tehuana women became handsome / H. M. Taylor
• The flaming flower / Catherine J. Stoker
• Juan García goes to heaven / Frost Woodhull
• The eagle lover / Bertha McKee Dobie
• Legends from Durango / Everardo Gámiz
• Holy Ghost Canyon / Maude McFie Bloom
• Old-time new Mexican usages / Alice M. Crook
• Sons of the devil / Joe Storm
• Catorce / J. Frank Dobie
• The little white dog / Hugh McGehee Taylor
• Ranchero sayings of the border / Howard D. Wesley
• Songs of the Mexican migration / Paul S. Taylor
• The enchanted city of Monte Albán / E. R. Sims

• The Texas Folk-lore Society
• Contributors
• Index.

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Contributors:

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

North Texas State University > Laboratory School Library , former owner, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fmo

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 12

Subjects:

Tales — Mexico

Folklore — Mexico

Folk songs — Mexico

Maxims

Tales

Folklore

Folk songs

Mexico

Genres:

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

Bookplates (Provenance) — United States — 20th century

General Notes:

"Ranchero sayings of the border, by Howard D. Wesley": p. 211-220.
"Songs of the Mexican migration, by Paul S. Taylor": p. 221-245.
Bound in red cloth over boards with printed design on front and back covers.
Fine condition.
Pasted on inside front cover is a bookplate of Laboratory School Library, North Texas State University.

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 vol. 12

ISBNs:

0870740415
9780870740411

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

a 35001517 (i.e., a35001517)

OCLC Numbers:

1706176