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Table of Contents:

• Preface / Francis Edward Abernathy
• A high toned woman / Joyce Gibson Roach
• The lingo of the Espee / Charlie Oden
• Mechanical Macho: the current creaze for customizing pickups / Kenneth W. Davis
• Texas Bapistry Paintings: landscape, doctrine, mysticism / Jack Welch
• Celebrations of the Dead: merging traditions in the Spanish Southwest / John O. West
• Mexican American lime kilns in West Texas: the limits of folk technology / Joe S. Graham
• A rose blooms in the desert: the saga of the Santa Rita #1 / Edward C. Rowland
• The rules of cockfighting / Jim Harris
• The family saga: an interpretive analysis / Lawrence Clayton
• Showdown at sunup / Paul Patterson
• Elephant ears in the Churchyard / Al Lowman
• Hog drovers: the why and how of hog drives / Lora B. Garrison
• A key of golden: brief encounters remembered / Mrs. John Q. Anderson
• Summer Revival / Ernest B. Speck
• Growing up in Bosque country / Palmer Olsen
• Cowboy poets / Guy Logsdon
• Folk poetry / Texas, Southwest / Elton Miles
• Contributors
• Index.

Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Roach, Joyce Gibson , author

Oden, Charles , author

Davis, Kenneth W. , author

Welch, Jack , author

West, John O. , author

Graham, Joe Stanley , author

Rowland, Edward C. , author

Harris, Jim , author

Clayton, Lawrence , author

Patterson, Paul , author

Lowman, Al , author

Garrison, Lora B. , author

Anderson, Mrs. John Q. , author

Speck, Ernest , author

Olsen, Palmer , author

Logsdon, Guy William , author

Miles, Elton, 1917-1995 , author

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

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 47

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Folklore

Manners and customs

Texas

Genres:

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

General Notes:

Includes bibliographies and 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 peach publisher's cloth with beige paper-covered boards. Retains original dust jacket.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.47

ISBNs:

0870742566

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

87009756

OCLC Numbers:

15696245