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Table of Contents:

• Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore / Jim Harris
• A Legend Runs Through It / Bryan Woolley (The Dallas Morning News)
• The Weeping Woman / John O. West (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Bois d'Arc Recollections / Ernestine Linck, Charles Linck (The Commerce Journal)
• Prescriptions for Ailments Did Not Always Find a Cure and Dyin' Easy and Several Other Ways of Crossing Over and Departing This Life / Joyce Gibson Roach (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Musing on Distant, Faded Glories of the Days of Radio / Robert J. Duncan (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Unknowingly, Security Guard Takes on KKK / Robert J. Duncan (McKinney Courier Gazette)
• Four Musings on Bad Roosters / Henry Wolff, Jr. (The Victoria Advocate)
• The Ol' Red Rooster Learns a Hard Lesson / Lora B. Garrison (Uvalde Leader-News)
• Hallie Stillwell Will Live on in Memories / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News)
• Ex-Sheriff's Tale Is One for History Books / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News)
• Tales of a Rural School Teacher / Lou Rodenberger (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• The New Year Hasn't Always Started January 1; Valentine's Day: How It All Began; and Columbus Day Roots Are in This Century / Archie McDonald (The Daily Sentinel)
• Texas' Oddest Animal / Jerry Turner (The Mexia Daily News)
• What Mrs. Rives Found in Gilmer / Sarah Greene (The Gilmer Mirror)
• He 'Woodn't' Trade Hobby for Anything / John Fooks (The Texarkana Gazette).
• The ghosts of Bill Longley; Bill Longley on the gallows; and Haunted by Bill Longley / A.C. Greene (The Dallas Morning News)
• Weather lore isn't all wet / Stanley Marcus (The Dallas Morning News)
• Animals dominate our language / Stanley Marcus (The Dallas Morning News)
• Brilliant brickmanship / Allan Turner (Houston Chronicle)

• History as close as a turntable / Allan Turner (Houston Chronicle)
• Working hard, joking hard on the frontier / Lawrence Clayton (Dallas Times Herald)
• Cow chip tea / Haywood Hygh (Marshall News Messenger)
• Orient Hotel saw good time and bad / Elmer Kelton (West Texas Livestock Weekly)
• El ojo and other folk beliefs / Joe Graham (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• The Cleo face / Mike Cox (San Angelo Standard-Times)
• Dr. J. Mason Brewer / James W. Byrd (The Commerce Journal).
• Dusting out / Francis Edward Abernethy (Dallas Times Herald)
• Alfonso's yearly routine / T. Lindsay Baker (Eagle-News)
• Making the rattlesnake roundup circuit / T. Lindsay Baker (Eagle-News)
• Rayon dresses and FDR / T. Lindsay Baker (The Clarendon News)
• A collection of poems / Jean Schnitz (The Kingsville-Bishop Record News)
• Gold diggers / Patrick Dearen (The Midland Reporter-Telegram
• Chicken-fried steak tour through Texas / Alan Solomon (Chicago Tribune)
• Cowboy poet honored by peers / Peggy McCracken (Pecos Enterprise)
• Telling tales keeps Patterson busy and happy / Rosie Flores (Pecos Enterprise).

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Contributors:

Harris, Jim, 1942- , editor

Satterwhite, Carolyn Fiedler , 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: Features and fillers (Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©1999 — ISBN 1574410741; LCCN 99016387; OCLC Number 41531562)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 56

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Folklore — Press coverage — Texas

American newspapers — Texas

Folklore

Press coverage

American newspapers

Texas

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 24, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 233 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.56 1999eb

ISBNs:

058527004X
9780585270043
1574410741 [Invalid]
9781574410747 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

961678214
45732574 [Invalid]