Corners of Texas
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| Superior document: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 52 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : University of North Texas Press, 1993 ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | Undetermined English |
| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;
no. 52. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 295 p. ); ill., map ; |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- A corner forever Texas: the Southwestern Writers Collection / Richard A. Holland
- John Lomax and Texas: roots of a career / Nolan Porterfield
- J. Frank Dobie and the American Folklore Society / Paul Stone
- Beautifull printed and expressive of Texas: Carl Hertzog and the Texas Folklore Society / Al Lowman
- Piston packin' mamas: gun code for western women / Joyce Roach
- "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" / Phyllis Bridges
- Forked stick folkcraft / George Ewing
- No-eared Joe: oil field folk hero / Tom E. Breedlove
- The boat called "El Pato" / Fernando Garza Quirós
- From African spirit catcher to American folk art emblem: the trans-Atlantic odyssey of the bottle tree / Richard Graham
- A hog race / Bill Brett
- An East Texas lynching: the Humphries/Wilkinson-Greenhaw feud / Mark Busby
- Hammered dulcimers and folk songs: the musical heritage of the C.A. Lee family / Jean Granberry Schnitz
- The rabbit, the lion, and the man: race relations in folklore fieldwork / Patrick B. Mullen
- Longino Guerrero's corrido on J. Frank Dobie / F.E. Abernethy
- Peripatetic proselytizing / Julia Whitsitt
- The sunbonnet as folk costume / Janet K. Jeffery
- College creates a new breed of cowboy / Sylvia Gann Mahoney
- Laughing at the clouds: Texas drought humor / Rana K. Williamson
- The blues and jives of Dr. Hepcat / Alan Govenar
- Motorcycles and majorettes: grave markers for youth in central Texas / Rollo K. Newsom
- Singing people are happy people: a brief look at convention gospel music / Richard J. Mason.