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Folktales from the Helotes settlement / John Igo ; edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt ; illustrated by Scott Runnels.
Van Pelt Library GR1 .T4 extra bk.25
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Igo, John, 1927-2016, author.
- Series:
- Texas Folklore Society extra book ; no. 25.
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 71.
- Texas Folklore Society extra book ; number 25
- [Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 71]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helotes (Tex.)--Folklore.
- Helotes (Tex.).
- Helotes (Tex.)--History--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Helotes (Tex.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Manners and customs.
- Texas--Helotes.
- Genre:
- History.
- Anecdotes.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Preface / by Kenneth l. Untiedt
- Introduction and dedication
- The white chapel
- Hitzfelder
- Freddie at Maude's
- What toll road?
- Shavano
- The mobile market
- Stations of the Cross
- John Marnock's dog
- The other barber
- The dowser
- Spring
- By any other name
- Wayfaring strangers
- Charcoal City
- Cave dwellers
- Seabirds
- Chewing tobacco
- The natural cure
- Bird-boy
- Edwards Flat
- Daisy and the stork
- The Indian tree
- The Moeller-Marnock shootout (Marnock version)
- The culvert
- The devil in the outhouse
- The trophy buck
- Nomad
- Indian middens and graves
- Fools' gold
- The skeleton house
- Phantom cemetery
- Cisterns
- The wolf man
- The buzzard colony
- The rustler
- Snakes
- The invisible bootlegger(s)
- The devil's slide
- Lost gold
- The totem
- Postal service
- The merry-eye
- The barn ghost
- Lucy's treasures
- Murder I
- The white witch
- Murder II
- Artifacts
- Cleto
- Mr. Brauchle's school
- Scaring Indians
- The kid
- Sam's innocent heart
- July 4, 1976
- The fence
- The famous stew
- Our Lady of Zion
- Infant mortality
- Watermelons
- The name : a place with three mothers
- Lily's bottle
- St. Cecilia's eyes
- Story-teller
- The waltz contest
- Stringtown : an elegy.
- ISBN:
- 9781574415896
- 1574415891
- OCLC:
- 881030110
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