Mesquite and Willow
Description
Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
Physical Description
viii, 203 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Creation Information
Boatright, Mody Coggin 1957.
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- Boatright, Mody Coggin Author, The Western Bad Man as Hero
Contributing Authors
- Paredes, Americo The Legend of Gregorio Cortez
- McNeil, Brownie The Chold Ballad in the Middle West and Lower Mississippi Valley
- Aiken, Riley Six Tales from Mexico
- Bedichek, Roy Animal Tales: Function and Folklore
- Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 Br'er Rabbit Watches Out for Himself in Mexico
- Thompson, Stith Recollections of an Itinerant Folklorist
- Stephenson, R. C. Dialogue in Folktale and Song
- Hendren, Joseph W. To Whom God Wishes to Give: A Tale of Old Mexico in English Ballad Stanzas
- Smith, Victor J. Tales of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad
- Miles, Elton R. Christ in the Big Bend
- Anderson, John Q. The Ghost of the Hutto Ranch
- Garcia, Alfredo R. Spanish Folklore from South Texas
- Taylor, Walter Home Remedies for Arthritis
Editors
- Hudson, Wilson M. Associate Editor and Author, The Twelve Truths in the Spanish Southwest
- Maxwell, Allen Associate Editor
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Publisher
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Southern Methodist University Press
Place of Publication: Dallas, Texas
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Titles
- Main Title: Mesquite and Willow
- Added Title: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society Number 27
- Series Title: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
Description
Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
Physical Description
viii, 203 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Number XXVII."
Subjects
Keywords
- Br'er Rabbit
- Spanish folklore
- animal folk tales
- arthritis
- ballads
- folk remedies
- folk songs
- folk tales
- home remedies
- legends
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- OCLC: 21934977
- UNT Catalog No.: b1340004 | View in Discover
- Library of Congress Control Number: 5612566
- ISBN: 0870740180
- Series Number: 27
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc38863
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- Mesquite and Willow [e-book], ark:/67531/metadc970132
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Texas Folklore Society Publications
This collection of Texas Folklore Society publications contains a miscellany of Texas and Mexican folklore, including stories about folk medicine and ranch remedies, folk songs, legends and other folklore.
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Mesquite and Willow (Book)
Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
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- 1957
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- The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
- The Republic of Texas, 1836-1846
- Annexation, 1844-1846
- The Texas Frontier, 1846-1861
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1876
- New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression, 1877-1939
- Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
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- July 13, 2011, 9:16 a.m.
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- Oct. 15, 2018, 8:03 p.m.
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- United States - Texas
- United States - Texas - Bexar County - San Antonio
- United States - Texas - Hidalgo County
- United States - Texas - Hamilton County
- United States - Texas - Hood County
- United States - Texas - Nueces County
- United States - Texas - Presidio County
- United States - Texas - Wheeler County
- United States - Texas - Freestone County
- United States - Texas - El Paso County - El Paso
- United States - Oklahoma
- Mexico
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Dallas, Texas (Southern Methodist University Press)
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Boatright, Mody Coggin. Mesquite and Willow, book, 1957; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38863/: accessed March 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.