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Summary:

A collection of essays on some of the old ways-the customs-still practiced in Texas. It is not an exercise in nostalgia but a look at practical ways of dealing with problems of survival and coping with nature and people.

Table of Contents:

• Waggoner's cowboys
• Buttermilk is beautiful
• Making syrup
• Arden Hooks, Big Thicket bee courser
• Traditon and the Candelilla Wax industry
• Geophage in this generation
• Fiddlers and festivals: a Texas tradition
• Lesson on playing mule
• Chimney Dobbin' in the Big Thicket
• Jinkins Seed Store, Nacogdoches
• Cedarcutters and others
• First Monday at Canton and some tales they tell
• Following the forked stick
• Faith healing
• Whittler's bench-Tenaha, Texas.

Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Texas Folklore Society

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Some still do (1st ed.; Austin : Encino Press, 1975 — LCCN 76359160; OCLC Number 1947225)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 39

Subjects:

Texas — Social life and customs

Manners and customs

Texas

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 123) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 153 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.39 1975eb

OCLC Numbers:

1055250293
564825271 [Invalid]