Southwestern Lore / Dobie, J. Frank.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dobie, J. Frank 1888-1964
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : University of North Texas Press,, 1931.; ©1931.
• Year of Publication: 1931
• Language: Undetermined; No linguistic content
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource)
• Notes: Title from content provider.

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.

Table of 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.