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Table of Contents:

• Preface to the reprint edition / Wilson M. Hudson
• Remarks necessary and unnecessary / J. Frank Dobie
• Some Texas versions of "The frog's courting" / L.W. Payne, Jr.
• A Texas border ballad / Mattie Austin Hatcher
• Reptiles of the south and southwest in folk-lore / John K. Strecker
• On the origins of reptile myths / John K. Strecker
• Familiar sayings of old time Texans / Mary Jourdan Atkinson
• The tournament in Texas / J. Frank Dobie
• Episodes at ranch community dances / Branch Isbell
• Pioneer Christmas customs of Tarrant County / Mary Daggett Lake
• Superstitions of Bexar County / E.R. Bogusch
• Buffalo lore and Boudin Blanc / Douglas Branch
• Old time darky plantation melodies / Natalie Taylor Carlisle
• The negro as interpreter of his own folk-songs / R.C. Harrison
• South Texas negro work-songs / Gates Thomas
• Proceedings of the Texas Folk-lore Society, 1925
• Some current folk-songs of the negro
• Will Thomas and the Texas Folk-lore Society / J. Frank Dobie
• Some current folk-songs of the negro and their economic interpretation / Will H. Thomas.

Contributors:

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

Thomas, W. H. (William Henry), 1880-1935

Texas Folklore Society , issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Included Works:

Some current folk-songs of the Negro [by Thomas, W.H.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Rainbow in the morning [by Dobie, J.F.] (Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1975, ©1926 — ISBN 0870741500; LCCN 74032243; OCLC Number 1169903)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 5

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folk songs, English — Texas — History and criticism

African Americans — Texas — Folklore

Texas — Social life and customs

Folklore

Folk songs, English

African Americans

Manners and customs

Texas

Genres:

Folklore

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Reprint of the 1965 ed. published by Folklore Associates, Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 12, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190, 13 pages) : music.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.5 1975eb

ISBNs:

0870741500 [Invalid]
9780870741500 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

982194710