| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Publication of the Texas Folklore Society ; 58 |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 58.
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| Contents |
"It's the Watkins man!" / Kenneth Davis -- "Now you hear my horn!" / Thad Sitton -- "That dirty little coward!" / Tony Clark -- Mother's Model T / George Ewing -- The origins of the Texas style of traditional old-time fiddling / Charles Gardner -- Epics of defeat: Texas' Alamo and Scotland's Culloden / Sylvia Grider -- The Roswell incident: fiftieth anniversary sell-abration / Becky Matthews -- Greetings from Frank Dobie / Kevin Hill and Jim Stuart -- Baby lore: the why and wherefore of it / Joyce Roach -- Grandparenting / Hazel S. Abernathy -- "It all began the day my conscience died": the cheatin' song from prototype to postmodern / Richard Holland -- La quniceañera: a Hispanic folk custom / Phyllis Bridges -- The breakfast of champions / J.G. Pinkerton -- Women a-horseback -- side or astride / Carolyn Norgaard -- "This story has no leeeeede!" / Mike Cox -- Recipes from Green Pastures / Mary Faulk Koock -- Take me out to the ballgame / John Lightfoot -- How cloth was dyed during the civil war in Washington County, Texas / Peggy Redshaw -- Uppity women / Archie McDonald -- Praising potted pork parts: Austin's one and only spamarama / L. Patrick Hughes -- Homemade religion: miraculous images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in south Texas / Rhett Rushing -- The Roy Bedichek family letters / Frances B. Vick -- Emily D. West and the yellow prose of Texas: a primer on some primary documents and their doctoring / James Lutzweiler -- The elusive Emily D. West, folksong's fabled "Yellow rose of Texas" / F.E. Abernethy |
| Summary |
Contains a sample of the research conducted by members of the Texas Folklore Society at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings |
| 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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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 24, 2017) |
| In |
Humanities International Complete. Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Publishing, 1999- |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Texas
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Folklore
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abernethy, Francis Edward, editor
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Thompson, Shannon R., editor
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Texas Folklore Society, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
1574411403 |
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9781574411409 |
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