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Table of Contents:

• A corner forever Texas : the Southwestern Writers Collection / Richard A. Holland
• John Lomax and Texas : roots of a career / Nolan Porterfield
• J. Frank Dobie and the American Folklore Society / Paul Stone
• Beautifull printed and expressive of Texas : Carl Hertzog and the Texas Folklore Society / Al Lowman
• Piston packin' mamas : gun code for western women / Joyce Roach
• "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" / Phyllis Bridges
• Forked stick folkcraft / George Ewing
• No-eared Joe : oil field folk hero / Tom E. Breedlove
• The boat called "El Pato" / Fernando Garza Quirós
• From African spirit catcher to American folk art emblem : the trans-Atlantic odyssey of the bottle tree / Richard Graham
• A hog race / Bill Brett
• An East Texas lynching : the Humphries/Wilkinson-Greenhaw feud / Mark Busby
• Hammered dulcimers and folk songs : the musical heritage of the C.A. Lee family / Jean Granberry Schnitz
• The rabbit, the lion, and the man : race relations in folklore fieldwork / Patrick B. Mullen
• Longino Guerrero's corrido on J. Frank Dobie / F.E. Abernethy
• Peripatetic proselytizing / Julia Whitsitt
• The sunbonnet as folk costume / Janet K. Jeffery
• College creates a new breed of cowboy / Sylvia Gann Mahoney
• Laughing at the clouds : Texas drought humor / Rana K. Williamson
• The blues and jives of Dr. Hepcat / Alan Govenar

• Motorcycles and majorettes : grave markers for youth in central Texas / Rollo K. Newsom
• Singing people are happy people : a brief look at convention gospel music / Richard J. Mason.

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Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward , editor

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

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Corners of Texas (1st ed.; Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1993 — ISBN 0929398572; LCCN 93007447; OCLC Number 27812281)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 52

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Social life and customs

Folklore

Manners and customs

Texas

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 26, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 295 pages) : illustrations, map.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.52 1993eb

ISBNs:

0585270694
9780585270692
0929398572 [Invalid]
9780929398570 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

45732785