| Description |
1 online resource (v, 233 pages) : illustrations |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; LVI |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 56.
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| Contents |
Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore / Jim Harris -- A Legend Runs Through It / Bryan Woolley (The Dallas Morning News) -- The Weeping Woman / John O. West (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- Bois d'Arc Recollections / Ernestine Linck, Charles Linck (The Commerce Journal) -- Prescriptions for Ailments Did Not Always Find a Cure and Dyin' Easy and Several Other Ways of Crossing Over and Departing This Life / Joyce Gibson Roach (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- Musing on Distant, Faded Glories of the Days of Radio / Robert J. Duncan (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- Unknowingly, Security Guard Takes on KKK / Robert J. Duncan (McKinney Courier Gazette) -- Four Musings on Bad Roosters / Henry Wolff, Jr. (The Victoria Advocate) -- The Ol' Red Rooster Learns a Hard Lesson / Lora B. Garrison (Uvalde Leader-News) -- Hallie Stillwell Will Live on in Memories / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News) -- Ex-Sheriff's Tale Is One for History Books / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News) -- Tales of a Rural School Teacher / Lou Rodenberger (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- The New Year Hasn't Always Started January 1; Valentine's Day: How It All Began; and Columbus Day Roots Are in This Century / Archie McDonald (The Daily Sentinel) -- Texas' Oddest Animal / Jerry Turner (The Mexia Daily News) -- What Mrs. Rives Found in Gilmer / Sarah Greene (The Gilmer Mirror) -- He 'Woodn't' Trade Hobby for Anything / John Fooks (The Texarkana Gazette) |
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The ghosts of Bill Longley; Bill Longley on the gallows; and Haunted by Bill Longley / A.C. Greene (The Dallas Morning News) -- Weather lore isn't all wet / Stanley Marcus (The Dallas Morning News) -- Animals dominate our language / Stanley Marcus (The Dallas Morning News) -- Brilliant brickmanship / Allan Turner (Houston Chronicle) -- History as close as a turntable / Allan Turner (Houston Chronicle) -- Working hard, joking hard on the frontier / Lawrence Clayton (Dallas Times Herald) -- Cow chip tea / Haywood Hygh (Marshall News Messenger) -- Orient Hotel saw good time and bad / Elmer Kelton (West Texas Livestock Weekly) -- El ojo and other folk beliefs / Joe Graham (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- The Cleo face / Mike Cox (San Angelo Standard-Times) -- Dr. J. Mason Brewer / James W. Byrd (The Commerce Journal) |
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Dusting out / Francis Edward Abernethy (Dallas Times Herald) -- Alfonso's yearly routine / T. Lindsay Baker (Eagle-News) -- Making the rattlesnake roundup circuit / T. Lindsay Baker (Eagle-News) -- Rayon dresses and FDR / T. Lindsay Baker (The Clarendon News) -- A collection of poems / Jean Schnitz (The Kingsville-Bishop Record News) -- Gold diggers / Patrick Dearen (The Midland Reporter-Telegram -- Chicken-fried steak tour through Texas / Alan Solomon (Chicago Tribune) -- Cowboy poet honored by peers / Peggy McCracken (Pecos Enterprise) -- Telling tales keeps Patterson busy and happy / Rosie Flores (Pecos Enterprise) |
| Summary |
Discusses El ojo, Rattlesnake roundups, and chicken-fried steak, and other important novelties of Texas |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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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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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 24, 2017) |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Texas
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Folklore -- Press coverage -- Texas
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American newspapers -- Texas
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Folklore -- Press coverage -- Texas
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Folklore -- Texas
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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American newspapers
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Folklore
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Texas
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harris, Jim, 1942- editor.
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Satterwhite, Carolyn Fiedler, editor.
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Texas Folklore Society, issuing body.
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| ISBN |
058527004X |
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9780585270043 |
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