Legendary Ladies of Texas / edited by Francis Edward Abernethy.

• Author: Texas Foundation for Women's Resources.; Abernethy, Francis E
• TeilnehmendeR: Abernethy, Francis Edward.; Texas Foundation for Women's Resources.
• Place / Publishing House: Denton : : University of North Texas Press,, 1994.; ©1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages :); illustrations
• Notes: "Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover.

A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them.

Table of Contents

EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. Bailey and the Bears.