Legendary Ladies of Texas edited by Francis Edward Abernethy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abernethy, Francis Edward.

Texas Foundation for Women's Resources.

Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Texas--Biography.

Women.

Legends.

Women--Texas--Folklore.

Women--Texas--History.

Legends--Texas.

Texas.

Genre:

History.

Folklore.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 237 pages :) illustrations ;

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

University of North Texas Press 1994

Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them.

Contents:

EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue

Angelina

Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas

The weeping woman: La Llorona

SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas

The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio

The capitol's lady

Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull

Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara

Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie

TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris

Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture

Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur

Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists

Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady

El Paso madams

EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson

"Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker

Glamor girl called Electra

The babe

MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene

Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders

Honky tonk angels

Woman as victim in modern folklore

Mrs. Bailey and the Bears.

Notes:

"Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-585-28598-5

OCLC:

30438167