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Table of Contents:

• "Legendary" Texans
• Jacob Brodbeck: the first man to fly /Jerry Young
• Hugh 'Hackberry Slim' Johnson, II / Jo Virgil
• The grave of the lonesome cowboy: Mitchell Crossing Ranch, McCulloch County, Texas / Barbara Finlay
• Georgianna Knowles: borderland bullfighter / Charlie T. McCormick
• Sam Houston was not born in Texas, and other disturbing facts / Vicky J. Rose
• Did David Crockett really stop in Bastrop? some facts and folklore / Mariann Fisk Laughlin
• Myth, folklore, and misconception in the 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker / Paul H. Carlson
• The legend of Old Casuse and his paint horse gallows / Michael Collins
• The hermit: a study of the legend central to Cascade Caverns in Boerne, Texas / Erin Marissa Russell and Matt Gibson
• A British adventure in the year of the Texas centennial / Adam Cree
• The family saga of Mody Boatright / James Mody Bridges
• The legacy of John O. West: Mexican-American folklore from the 20th to the 21st century / Meredith E. Abarca and Lucy Fischer-West
• Texas folk song and dance
• Here a ditty, there a ditty, everywhere a little ditty / Karen Reinartz Haile
• Come on-a my house: a look at the house and ranch dances of Texas / Carol Bolland
• Yodels, cattle calls, and other melodious sounds / Jean Granberry Schnitz
• Boosting the Eden Bulldogs Margaret A. Cox
• Refrain from prison: how the Texas prison music program connected the incarcerated and 'the free' / Ruth Massingill, Mel Strait, and Emily Jones
• Life in Texas as we remember it

• Our pre-teen silver screen dreams and pied-piper Melton Barker, an itinerant filmmaker / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan
• Visiting in the 1930s / W. Floyd Elliott
• Whiskey stills in the hills / Lee Haile
• Cooking with gas: the quiet revolution / Charles Williams
• Homestead heritage farms: a step back in time in central Texas / Charles B. Martin
• Old cars driving around Austin: boyhood adventures behind the wheel / John Meadows
• Before I was five / Elizabeth Harris Duncan.

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Contributors:

Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 72

Subjects:

Folklore — Texas

Texas — Biography

Texas — Social life and customs

Folk songs, English — Texas — History and criticism

Folk music — Texas — History and criticism

Folklore

Manners and customs

Folk songs, English

Folk music

Texas

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.72

ISBNs:

9781574416978 (cloth, alk. paper)
1574416979
9781574417081 (ebook)
1574417088

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017039500

OCLC Numbers:

987064555