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Folklore : in all of us, in all we do / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 63.
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 63
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Texas.
- Folklore.
- Occupations--Texas--Folklore.
- Occupations.
- Texas--Folklore.
- Texas.
- Texas--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Includes articles on a variety of topics, examining the cultural roles women fill, folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. This work looks at how folklore and history complement one another.
- Contents:
- Is it folklore or history? : the answer may be important / Tom Crum
- The roadrunner in fact and folk-lore / J. Frank Dobie
- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews
- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
- The cooking extravaganza : sequel to "Gathering at Bill's" / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. Mosel-Talavera
- Madame Blackley : seer of south Texas / Henry Wolff, Jr
- La Llorona's ancestry : crossing cultural boundaries / Gloria Duarte
- Burning brightly : the Easter fires of maternal necessity / Donna Melitio
- Five stands off bottom / Lew Schnitz
- Dispatches from the electronic front lines / Charles Williams
- A rural mail carrier / Milt McAfee (as told by Ben Mead)
- The trials and tribulations of a dirt road country doctor / Mildred Boren Sentell
- Joe Fitzgerald, nurseryman and philosopher / Mary Joe (Fitzgerald) Clendenin
- Water woes and water ways : tales of Texas engineer John B. Hawley / Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore
- The long arm of the law / Martha Emmons
- The police language : the lore of law enforcement communication in west Texas / Kenneth L. Untiedt
- Cactus Jack Garner as folk hero : vice-president of the United States 1933-1940 / Lora B. Garrison
- And lo to Vernon came : the con man, the bootlegger man, and the music man / William N. Stokes, Jr
- Horsetrading and ethics / J. Rhett Rushing
- The lore of retirement and extended care facilities / Kenneth W. Davis
- Folksy, but devout, bookkeeping / George Wilmeth Ewing
- Mi fronteridad in the classroom : the power of writing and sharing stories / Meredith E. Abarca.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-13306-X
- 9786611133061
- 1-57441-395-3
- 1-4337-1119-2
- 1-4356-2312-6
- OCLC:
- 193174439
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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