Features and Fillers : Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore / / Jim Harris, editor, Carolyn Satterwhite, assistant editor.
Discusses El ojo, Rattlesnake roundups, and chicken-fried steak, and other important novelties of Texas.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Denton, Tex. : : University of North Texas Press,, 1999. ©1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;
no. 56. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 233 p. ); ill. ; |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication / Paul Patterson
- Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore / Jim Harris
- A Legend Runs Through It / Bryan Woolley (The Dallas Morning News)
- The Weeping Woman / John O. West (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- Bois d'Arc Recollections / Ernestine Linck, Charles Linck (The Commerce Journal)
- Prescriptions for Ailments Did Not Always Find a Cure and Dyin' Easy and Several Other Ways of Crossing Over and Departing This Life / Joyce Gibson Roach (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- Musing on Distant, Faded Glories of the Days of Radio / Robert J. Duncan (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- Unknowingly, Security Guard Takes on KKK / Robert J. Duncan (McKinney Courier Gazette)
- Four Musings on Bad Roosters / Henry Wolff, Jr. (The Victoria Advocate)
- The Ol' Red Rooster Learns a Hard Lesson / Lora B. Garrison (Uvalde Leader-News)
- Hallie Stillwell Will Live on in Memories / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News)
- Ex-Sheriff's Tale Is One for History Books / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News)
- Tales of a Rural School Teacher / Lou Rodenberger (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- The New Year Hasn't Always Started January 1; Valentine's Day: How It All Began; and Columbus Day Roots Are in This Century / Archie McDonald (The Daily Sentinel)
- Texas' Oddest Animal / Jerry Turner (The Mexia Daily News)
- What Mrs. Rives Found in Gilmer / Sarah Greene (The Gilmer Mirror)
- He 'Woodn't' Trade Hobby for Anything / John Fooks (The Texarkana Gazette).