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THE EDITOR'S PREROGATIVE
"I am amazed at the work your organization is doing in
gathering so much material, strictly in its line." Thus writes
Carl Sandburg, who, after strumming folk tunes all over
America and writing a folk history of Abraham Lincoln, is
about to come forth with a book to be called The American
Songbag. I must confess that I am becoming somewhat "amazed"
myself. The supply of folk-lore in Texas and the South-
west seems inexhaustible; the growing interest in the subject
is indeed heartening.
The West Texas Historical and Scientific Society, which
is "staked" to Sul Ross State Teachers College at Alpine and
of which Victor J. Smith, erstwhile president of the Texas
Folk-Lore Society and all the while one. of its best working
and best contributing members, is "wagon boss," has issued
a bulletin containing as much Big Bend folk-lore as history.
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, the "bed ground"
of which is Canyon, is through its field secretary, J. Evetts
Haley, collecting the folk-lore as well as the history of the
Staked Plains. East Texas, so long hiding in the cane brakes,
is, with Miss Martha Emmons "loose-herding" the folk-lorists
around Nacogdoches, getting ready to "trail out." This issue
of the Publications contains the announcement of a new book
of cowboy songs by Miss Ina Sires, of Dallas. The other day
a young lady from Fort Worth stepped into the office of Dr.
L. W. Payne, Jr.,-Nestor of Texas folk-lorists-with a book-
sized manuscript of original negro songs. (For the cream
of it watch next year's Publications.) A little before that two
"prospectors" from Kansas with a "minometer"-a costly in-
strument for meting the path to buried treasure, if not meet-
ing it-came to my home seeking confidential information on
the seventy-five jack loads of Spanish bullion hidden on
Dagger Hollow. I could tell a tale, not foreign to the Texas
Folk-Lore Society, as to how the Kansans came thus quest-
ing "authentic tidings of invisible things." Almost weekly a
new Texas legend is added to the store that will in time be
issued as a second volume of Legends of Texas. Yet, as usual,
the cry goes out not only for more legends but for more
folk material of all kinds.
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Texas and Southwestern Lore (Book)
Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964. Texas and Southwestern Lore, book, 1927; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67662/m1/7/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.