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The bounty of Texas

edited by Francis Edward Abernethy
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1990
Related Series:
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 49

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • R.A. Hill / The bounty of the wood
  • Elmer Kelton / Fiction writers are liars and thieves
  • Joyce Gibson Roach and Robert Flynn / A sense of place
  • Paul Clois Stone / Brush country, vaqueros, and hamlet's ghost
  • J. Frank Dobie / Curiosity in deer
  • Bertha McKee Dobie / The pleasure Frank Dobie took in grass
  • Sylvia Grider / The folksong scholarship of Dorothy Scarborough
  • Robert J. Duncan / Ben Carlton Mead: Portrait of an Artist
  • Conne Ricci / The lone ranger rides again
  • Jeri Tanner / Ollie North: hero, villain, or temporary prince?
  • Paul Patterson / Hallulujah, I'm a bum
  • Tom McClellan / dogs and madmen: stories from the Sufi tradition
  • Kenneth Davis / Bodies and souls: some partings of the Twain
  • Janet Jeffery / Glen rose 'shine
  • Faye Leeper / Storm cellar wisdom
  • Lera Tyler LIch / Good providing, good eating
  • W.M Von Maszewski /the German Volksfest in Brenham
  • Charles Shafer / Catheads, coal burners, and cho-cho sticks: folk speech in Texas prisons
  • Contributors
  • Index.
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Contributors:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Shockley, Martin , honouree
University of North Texas 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. 49
Subjects:
Folklore — Texas
Texas — Social life and customs
Folklore
Manners and customs
Texas
Genres:
Printed books — United States — Texas — Denton — 20th century
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) Gift: The Shockley Family, April 2004.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) ex. coll. Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Bound in black and beige publisher's cloth. Retains original dust jacket.
(Rare Book & Texana Collection copy) Donated in memory of Professor Martin Staples Shockley.
Physical Description:
232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Numbers:
GR1 .T4 no.49
ISBNs:
0929398149 (alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
90012417
OCLC Numbers:
21482564
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