| Description |
1 online resource (v, 233 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 56
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 56.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Dedication / Paul Patterson -- Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore / Jim Harris -- A Legend Runs Through It / Bryan Woolley (The Dallas Morning News) -- Weeping Woman / John O. West (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- Bois d'Arc Recollections / Ernestine Linck, Charles Linck (The Commerce Journal) -- Prescriptions for Ailments Did Not Always Find a Cure and Dyin' Easy and Several Other Ways of Crossing Over and Departing This Life / Joyce Gibson Roach (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- Musing on Distant, Faded Glories of the Days of Radio / Robert J. Duncan (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- Unknowingly, Security Guard Takes on KKK / Robert J. Duncan (McKinney Courier Gazette) -- Four Musings on Bad Roosters / Henry Wolff, Jr. (The Victoria Advocate) -- Ol' Red Rooster Learns a Hard Lesson / Lora B. Garrison (Uvalde Leader-News) -- Hallie Stillwell Will Live on in Memories / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News) -- Ex-Sheriff's Tale Is One for History Books / Kent Biffle (The Dallas Morning News) -- Tales of a Rural School Teacher / Lou Rodenberger (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram) -- New Year Hasn't Always Started January 1; Valentine's Day: How It All Began; and Columbus Day Roots Are in This Century / Archie McDonald (The Daily Sentinel) -- Texas' Oddest Animal / Jerry Turner (The Mexia Daily News) -- What Mrs. Rives Found in Gilmer / Sarah Greene (The Gilmer Mirror) -- He 'Woodn't' Trade Hobby for Anything / John Fooks (The Texarkana Gazette). |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
Discusses El ojo, Rattlesnake roundups, and chicken-fried steak, and other important novelties of Texas. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Social Sciences. |
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Folklore. |
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Anthropology. |
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Folklore. |
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American newspapers. |
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Folklore -- Press coverage -- Texas.
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Press coverage. |
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Texas. |
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Folklore -- Texas.
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American newspapers -- Texas.
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Texas -- Folklore and legends.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Satterwhite, Carolyn Fiedler.
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Harris, Jim, 1942-
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781574410747 |
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1574410741 |
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