Hoein' the Short Rows edited by Francis Edward Abernethy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abernethy, Francis E

Contributor:

Abernethy, Francis Edward.

Texas Folklore Society.

Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 47.

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore.

Social sciences.

Anthropology.

Manners and customs.

Folklore--Texas.

Texas.

Texas--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 238 p. ) ill., ports. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of North Texas Press 1987

Dallas, Tex. : Southern Methodist University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of Texas folklore by numerous authors.

Contents:

A high toned woman / Joyce Gibson Roach

The lingo of the Espee / Charlie Oden

Mechanical macho : the current craze for customizing pickups / Kenneth W. Davis

Texas baptistry paintings : landscape, doctrine, mysticism / Jack Welch

Celebrations of the dead : merging traditions in the Spanish Southwest / John O. West

Mexican-American lime kilns in West Texas : the limits of folk technology / Joe S. Graham

A rose blooms in the desert : the saga of the Santa Rita #1 / Edward C. Rowland

The rules of cockfighting / Jim Harris

The family saga : an interpretive analysis / Lawrence Clayton

Showdown at sunup / Paul Patterson

Elephant ears in the churchyard / Al Lowman

Hog drovers : the why and how of hog drives / Lora B. Garrison

A key of golden : brief encounters remembered / Mrs. John Q. Anderson

Summer revival / Ernest B. Speck

Growing up in Bosque County / Palmer Olsen

Cowboy poets / Guy Logsdon

Folk poetry : Texas, Southwest / Elton Miles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-585-27186-0

OCLC:

573848988