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Summary:

Texas' songs, tales, and traditions have lived and prospered on the other sides of Texas borders at one time or another before they crossed the rivers. "Both Sides of the Border" contains something foreveryone interested in Texas folklore.

Table of Contents:

• Remembering our ancestors. Letters from J. Frank Dobie to John Robert Craddock / Mary Belle Ingram with F.E. Abernethy
• Doc Sonnichsen Holds His Own / Al Lowman
• Texas-Mexcan folklore. Growing Up on Both Sides of the Border / Lucy Fischer West
• Welito: A Mexican-American Family in Southwest Texas / Bertha Dominguez
• Folklore of a San Antonio Midwife / Alica Zavala Galvan
• Religion, Superstitions, and Remedios in the Mexican-Amercan Culture / Glora Duarte-Valverda
• Pepe's Panaderia : Bread Folklore / Kenneth W. Davis
• A Tortilla Is Never "Just" a Tortilla / Lucy Fischer West.
• Miscellaneous memorabilia. The Evolution of a Legend : The Headless Horseman of Texas / Lou Ann Herda
• Who is Buried in Jesse James' Grave? / Tony Clark
• A Note on the Pacing White Mustang Legend / James T. Bracther
• Hell is for He-Men / James Ward Lee
• Clementine Hunter: Folk Artist / Phyllis Bridges
• Packaged Folklore : The Texas Folklife Festival : Storysmithing and shapeshifting / John L. Davis
• Same Song, Second Verse / Jean Granberry Schnitz
• Texas Kitsch and Other Collectibles / Georgia Caraway
• Texas Freedman's Settlements in the New South / Thad Sitton
• Toby's Hound / Pat Barton
• The Family Saga. Passing the Light : How Family Stories Shape Our Lives / Jan Epton Seale
• Two Tales of My Family : Two Tales of Who I Am / Charlie McCormick

• Red Kelly's Grandmother / Ralph Ramos
• A Family Full of Scars / George Ewing
• The Day Grandpa Blew Up the Tractor / Duane L. Spiess
• Greater Love / George N. Oliver
• Family Saga vs. History : Hezekiah Lincecum and the Church / Jerry Bryan Lincecum.

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Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward , editor

Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- , 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: Both sides of the border (Denton : University of North Texas Press, ©2004 — ISBN 1574411845; LCCN 2004011885; OCLC Number 55488126)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 61

Subjects:

Tales — Texas

Tales — Mexican-American Border Region

Tales

Texas

North America — Mexican-American Border Region

Genres:

Bibliographies

General Notes:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.61 2004eb

ISBNs:

1417590629 (electronic bk.)
9781417590629 (electronic bk.)
1433710064
9781433710063
1574411845 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781574411843 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781574414134
1574414135

OCLC Numbers:

935264230
59157469 [Invalid]