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2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 43
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 43.
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| Note |
"Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Women -- Texas -- Biography. |
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Women. |
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Legends. |
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Women -- Texas -- Folklore.
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Texas. |
| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| Subject |
Women -- Texas -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Women -- Texas -- History.
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History. |
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Legends -- Texas.
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United States, Texas -- History. |
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United States, Texas -- Biography. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books. .
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Abernethy, Francis Edward.
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Texas Foundation for Women's Resources.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780929398754 |
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0929398750 |
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