Southwestern Lore Dobie, J. Frank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964, editor.

Language:

No linguistic content

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Subjects (All):

Superstition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

University of North Texas Press 1931

[Place of publication not identified] : University of North Texas Press, 1931.

Summary:

Annotation A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, Southwestern Lore is about as representative as such a miscellany could be. Bad men, razorbacked hogs, Mexican sheep-herders, treasure hunters, African Americans, cowboys both gringo and Mexican, plant life, songs, oil field, Indians--all find representation in the volume.

Contents:

Saludas!

I

Folk Lore Shooting / Frost Woodhull 1 / Razorbacks / H. B. Parks 15 / Cowboy Lore in Colorado / Honora DeBusk Smith 27 / Myths in Oil Finding / David Donoghue 45

II

Folk / Lore of the King Ranch Mexicans / Frank Goodwyn 48 / The Mexican Pastor / Edgar B. Kincaid 63 / Mexican Plazas Along the River of Souls / Honora DeBusk Smith 69 / Folk / Foods of the Rio Grande Valley / John G. Bourke 85 / Songs the Vaqueros Sing / Joaquin Mora 118

III

Treasure Hunting in Masterpieces of Spanish Literature / C. C. Glascock 124 / Grandfather Wiley and His Dream / Julia Estill 130 / Buried in Bexar County / H. B. Parks 133 / Captain Kidd and His Treasure / George Keith Gordon 142

IV

Superstitions About Cotton / Mary Daggett Lake 145 / Brazos Bottom Philosophy / A. W. Eddins 153 / Mr. 'Possum and Mr. Coon / Martin L. Crimmins 165

V

Myths and Customs of the Tejas Indians / C. E. Castaleda 167

VI

Hell in Texas / George E. Hastings 175 / Oh, Bury Me Not / Ernest E. Leisy 183 / A Love-of-God Shave / Edwin Ford Piper 185 / The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Texas Folk / Lore Society 187 / Contributors 189 / Index 193.

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ISBN:

9780870740428

OCLC:

982244964