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Summary:

The family saga is made up of an accumulation of separate family legends. These are the stories of the old folks and the old times that are told among the family when they gather for funerals or Thanksgiving dinner. These are the "remember-when" stories the family tells about the time when the grownups were children.

Table of Contents:

• From the old sod to the new world
• Gone to Texas
• The Civil War
• Indians
• Animals, wild and domestic
• The church, preachers, and religion
• Ghosts and the supernatural
• Feuding and fighting
• Hard times
• A brush with history
• The wars
• The cycle of life
• Family matters
• Family characters : heroes, black sheep, and eccentrics
• Miscellaneous.

Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward , editor

Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- , editor

Vick, Frances Brannen, 1935- , 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: Family saga (Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2003 — LCCN 2003012346; OCLC Number 52381121)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 60

Subjects:

Texas — Social life and customs — Anecdotes

Texas — History — Anecdotes

Texas — Biography — Anecdotes

Folklore — Texas

Manners and customs

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

History

Biographies

Anecdotes

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 14, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.60 2003eb

ISBNs:

1574411683 [Invalid]
9781574411683 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

603944397