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Summary:

The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life "on the go." This work contains traditional "Gone to Texas" accounts and articles about people or methods of travel from days gone by.

Table of Contents:

• Folk travel in Texas. Texans on the road : the folklore of travel / Jim Harris
• Traveling Texan / Archie P. McDonald
• Red River Bridge War / Jerry B. Lincecum
• Wagon train experience / Carol Hanson
• Farm and ranch entrances in West Texas / Mary Harris
• Back in the day. Legends of the trail / Francis E. Abernethy
• The passage of Scotland's four = El pasaje de los cuatro de Escocia / Consuelo L. Samarripa
• Gone to (south) Texas / Janet McCannon Simonds
• Fannie Marchman's journey from Atlanta, Georgia to Jefferson, Texas / Ellen Pearson
• Walter Henry Burton's ride : Bell County to Juarez, Mexico in 1888 / James Burton Kelly
• The galloping gourmet, or, The chuck wagon cook and his craft / John O. West
• The language of the trail drivers : an examination of the origin and diffusion of an industry-oriented vocabulary / W.C. Jameson
• The modern era : tales of rails and highways. Rail remembrances : the train in folk memory and imagination / L. Patrick Hughes
• Safe in the arms of trainmen / Jan Epton Seale
• Tales of the rails / Charlie Oden
• The Ford epigram / Newton Gaines
• Watch the Fords go by : the automobile comes to old Bell County / Kenneth W. Davis
• Driving across Texas at thirty-five miles per hour / Jean Granberry Schnitz
• Still movin' on, any way they can. High flyin' times / Barbara Pybas
• Back in the saddle again : riding the chrome-moly horse / Lucille Enix

• Iron Butt Saddlesore / Paul N. Yeager
• The unspoken code of chivalry among drag racers / Gretchen Lutz
• Eating up Route 66 : foodways of motorists crossing the Texas Panhandle / T. Lindsay Baker
• There's life beyond the Sonic : growing up cruising / Charlie McCormack.

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Contributors:

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: Folklore in motion (Denton : University of North Texas Press, ©2007 — ISBN 9781574412383; ISBN 1574412388; LCCN 2007028412; OCLC Number 156891930)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 64

Subjects:

Texas — Description and travel — Anecdotes

Texas — Social life and customs — Anecdotes

Texas — Folklore

Travel — Folklore

Travelers' writings, American — Texas

Folklore — Texas

Travel

Manners and customs

Travelers' writings, American

Folklore

Texas

Genres:

Anecdotes

Folklore

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, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.64 2007eb

ISBNs:

9781435686779
1435686772
9781597344814
1597344818
1281923346
9781281923349
9781574413854
1574413856
9781574412383 [Invalid]
1574412388 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

294907579