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1 online resource (pages cm). |
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text file |
| Series |
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; lxxii
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 72.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Legendary" Texans -- Jacob Brodbeck: the first man to fly /Jerry Young -- Hugh 'Hackberry Slim' Johnson, II / Jo Virgil -- The grave of the lonesome cowboy: Mitchell Crossing Ranch, McCulloch County, Texas / Barbara Finlay -- Georgianna Knowles: borderland bullfighter / Charlie T. McCormick -- Sam Houston was not born in Texas, and other disturbing facts / Vicky J. Rose -- Did David Crockett really stop in Bastrop? some facts and folklore / Mariann Laughlin -- Myth, folklore, and misconception in the 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker / Paul H. Carlson -- The legend of Old Casuse and his paint horse gallows / Michael Collins -- The hermit: a study of the legend central to Cascade Caverns in Boerne, Texas / Erin Marissa Russell and Matt Gibson -- A British adventure in the year of the Texas centennial / Adam Cree -- The family saga of Mody Boatright / James Mody Bridges -- The legacy of John O. West: Mexican-American folklore from the 20th to the 21st century / Meredith E. Abarca and Lucy Fischer-West -- Texas folk song and dance -- Here a ditty, there a ditty, everywhere a little ditty / Karen Reinartz Haile -- Come on-a my house: a look at the house and ranch dances of Texas / Carol Bolland -- Yodels, cattle calls, and other melodious sounds / Jean Granberry Schnitz -- Boosting the Eden Bulldogs Margaret A. Cox -- Refrain from prison: how the Texas prison music program connected the incarcerated and 'the free' / Ruth Massingill, Mel Strait, and Emily Jones -- Life in Texas as we remember it -- Our pre-teen silver screen dreams and pied-piper Melton Barker, an itinerant filmmaker / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan -- Visiting in the 1930s / W. Floyd Elliott -- Whiskey stills in the hills / Lee Haile -- Cooking with gas: the quiet revolution / Charles Williams -- Homestead heritage farms: a step back in time in central Texas / Charles B. Martin -- Old cars driving around Austin: boyhood adventures behind the wheel / John Meadows -- Before I was five / Elizabeth Harris Duncan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folk music -- Texas -- History and criticism.
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Folk music. |
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Texas. |
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Folk songs, English -- Texas -- History and criticism.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Folklore -- Texas.
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Folklore. |
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Texas -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Texas -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Folk songs -- Texas. |
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Folklore -- Texas. |
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Texas -- Social life and customs. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Legends and Life in Texas. Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2017] (DLC) 2017039500 |
| ISBN |
9781574417081 (electronic book) |
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1574417088 (electronic book) |
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9781574416978 |
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