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Title Both sides of the border : a scattering of Texas folklore / edited by Francis Edward Abernethy, Kenneth L. Untiedt
Published Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2004]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages) : illustrations
Series Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; LXI
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 61
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-American 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 14, 2017)
Subject Tales -- Texas
Tales -- Mexican-American Border Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Tales.
Grenzgebiet
Volkskunde
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Texas.
Texas
Mexiko
Form Electronic book
Author Abernethy, Francis Edward, editor
Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- editor
Texas Folklore Society, issuing body
ISBN 1417590629
9781417590629
1433710064
9781433710063
9781574414134
1574414135