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Folk Travelers, Ballads, Tales, and Talk
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boatright/Hudson/Maxwell
- Maxwell, Allen, author.
- Hudson, Wilson Mathis, author.
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--United States.
- Folklore.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- University of North Texas Press 1953
- Summary:
- Annotation A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie's chapter on "The Traveling Anecdote." Also included are Roy Bedichek on "Folklore in Natural History;" "The Names of Western Wild Animals," by George D. Hendricks; "Bonny Barbara Allen," by Joseph W. Hendren; "Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other Motifs in Oil," by Mody C. Boatright; "The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada," by Robert C. Stephenson; "The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry," by Americo Paredes; "Emerson and the Language of the Folk," by John Q. Anderson; "Tales of Neiman-Marcus," by James Howard; "The Devil in the Big Bend," by Elton Miles; and others.
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