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Table of Contents:

• Preface / Francis Edward Abernethy
• The paisano's cactus corral / J. Frank Dobie
• The Anasazi / John Neal Phillips
• Harm and the bear / Carolyn M. Smyrl
• I remember things / Ross Estes
• Mamie Tobar's tales of treasure / As told by Gertrude Bluntzer to Ruth G. Wright
• Plantin' by the Moon / Bill Brett
• Going to press in Alto / Ben F. Hobbs
• The petrified lovers of Pecos: vintage yellow journalism / Wilma Roberts
• All the news in fits of print: an examination of Nigerian newspaper headlines / Bernth Lindfors
• Names are news / C. Richard King
• Minstrels at the marketplace: or, what the traveling Texan found for entertainment in ante-bellum New Orleans / Peter M. Stephen
• Country store / Nancy Wells
• The bachelor heater / Archer Fullingim
• Ticks on catfish / Ann Miller Carpenter
• Fact and fiction in three Lomax outlaw songs / Lawrence Clayton
• Home and farm remedies and charms in a German manuscript from a Texas ranch / Christine Boot
• Sunday's cock fight / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Talking and touching: a function of story telling / Faye Leeper
• The pet rock in American folklore / Olivia Murray Nichols

• The driver's license: emblem of a modern rite of passage / Leslie M. Thompson
• The ethological approach to folklore / Francis Edward Abernethy
• Publishers of Texas Folklore / Willie Earl Tindall and Lee Sullenger.

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Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Texas Folklore Society

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Paisanos, a folklore miscellany (1st ed.; Austin [Tex.] : Encino Press, ©1978 — LCCN 78103989; OCLC Number 4057287)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 41

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Folklore

Manners and customs

Texas

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 180 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.41 1978eb

OCLC Numbers:

1055258584
644550990 [Invalid]