Legendary ladies of Texas
edited by Francis Edward Abernethy
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Publication:
- Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1994
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- Summary:
- Review: A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them.
- Table of Contents:
- Early days. Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue
- Angelina
- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas
- The weeping woman: La Llorona
- Settlers. Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas
- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio
- The capitol's lady
- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull
- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara
- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie
- Texas gets culture. Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris
- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture
- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur
- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists
- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady
- El Paso madams
- Early 20th century. Pardon me, Governor Ferguson
- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker
- Glamor girl called Electra
- The babe
- Modern times. Janis and the Austin scene
- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
- Honky tonk angels
- Woman as victim in modern folklore
- Mrs. Bailey and the Bears.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Other Related Resources:
- Print version: Legendary ladies of Texas (2nd ed.; Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1994 — ISBN 0929398750; LCCN 94016318; OCLC Number 30438167)
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- General Notes:
- "Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations.
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- GR1 .T4 no.43 1994eb
- ISBNs:
- 0585285985
9780585285986 - OCLC Numbers:
- 45727533
