| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Texas Folklore Society extra book ; number 24
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Texas Folklore Society extra book ; no. 24.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index. |
| Contents |
Short call -- The wayward winds -- Pickled beets -- The tower of Babel -- Friday night lights -- "A worthy woman is more valuable than rubies" -- High-toned women -- Consider the lilies (or roses or daisies) of the field -- "If there be any virtue, any praise, think on these things" -- "Will Jesus find us watching?" -- Cleanliness is next to outhouses -- It's hip to be square -- The games people play -- Primer on poke sallet -- Recipe for Tex-Mex corn bread -- Addie's household helpful hints? ask Watkins -- Some cutting remarks about pocket knives -- What are friends for? -- Before dryers there was something called a clothesline -- Effie and Earley in a weather prediction showdown -- Hang on to your hat -- Feeling blue? try apricot cake -- Livestock journal: pig report -- "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee" -- Make a joyful noise -- Well dressed women always wear aprons -- School daze -- School ways -- Will the circle be unbroken? -- Long call -- More than cooks in the kitchen -- Shopping was an art -- Recipe for a birthday cake -- Scriptures, philosophy, and common sense make a sage -- Mama and the box top Christmas -- New year's wish -- A psalm for West Texas -- Endnotes. |
| Summary |
""Short Call: Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935-2000 ""by Joyce Gibson Roach, is TFS Extra Book #24. Joyce Gibson Roach has collected ""snippets"" of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small towns--and the people who inhabit them. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Small cities -- Texas, West -- Fiction.
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Small cities. |
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West Texas. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Farm life -- Texas, West -- Fiction.
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Women -- Texas, West -- Fiction.
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Women. |
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Farm life. |
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FICTION -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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Western stories.
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Humorous fiction.
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Western stories.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781574415735 1574415735 (DLC) 2014032917 (OCoLC)881030098 |
| ISBN |
9781574415865 (electronic book) |
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1574415867 (electronic book) |
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9781574415735 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1574415735 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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