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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The tire shrinker / E.J. Rissmann
• T-bones and cheater slicks: the folksay of the drag strip / Hermes Nye
• Silver Ingots in East Texas / James M. Day
• Hell-fire and folk humor on the frontier / Bill F. Fowler
• The morality play on horseback: Tom Mix / Mody C. Boatright
• Some examples of early Irish Storytelling / Ruth P. M. Lehmann
• An Gadai Dubh: the black thief / Myles Dillon
• Folkore and the Finnish sauna / Edwin W. Gaston, Jr.
• Speech Mas' on Tobago / Roger D. Abrahams
• Mock bidding in Jamaica / David Decamp
• The penny dreadful in the man's magazine / James Ward Lee
• Special Powers in folk cures and remedies / John Q. Anderson
• The precarious potato / J. T. McCullen, Jr.
• An arabic romance in Austin, Texas / Jame T. Bratchler
• Folkways and Mores at the University of Texas in the 1930's / Anne Phillips
• J. Frank Dobie-the teacher / Arlie Ray McTee
• With Dobie fourty years ago / Gus K. Eifler
• Eliade's Contribution to the study of myth / Wilson M. Hudson.

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Wilson Mathis, 1907-2002

Contributors:

Shockley, Martin , honouree

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Tire shrinker to dragster [by Hudson, W.M.]

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 34

Subjects:

Folklore

Genres:

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

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
(Copy 3) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Copy 3) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
(Copy 3) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.

Physical Description:

vi, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 v.34

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

75001007

OCLC Numbers:

40703