T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore
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Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
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xiii, 277 p. : ill., ports. ; digital (epub and mobi files)
Creation Information
Texas Folklore Society 2017.
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- Abernethy, Francis Edward Author, When You Call Me That, Smile! or Folklore, Ethology & Communication
Contributing Authors
- Echols, Wayne A Letter from the Long Circle
- Lee, James Ward "The Glamor of the Gay Night Life" The Classic Honky Tonk
- Latorre, Dolores L. How to Have, to Hold, or Free Oneself of a Lover
- Day, James M. Pecos Bill: His Genesis and Creators
- Thompson, Leslie M. The Vampire in an Age of Technology
- Clayton, Lawrence Pull Rings, Kidney Machines, and the Oral Tradition
- Sewell, Ernestine P. Folklorish Remnants of Peyote Ceremonialism
- Linck, Charles E. Folklorish Remnants of Peyote Ceremonialism
- Lich, Glen E. Animal Metaphors & Verbal Abuse Social Relations & Values Among German Speaking Farmers on Cypress Creek, Kerr County
- Turner, Martha Anne Within the Walls Texas Prison Folklore
- Harris, Jim Oil Field Jokes from the Llano Estacado
- Lawson, Roy W. Happy Jack and the Booger Man
- Patrick, Nancy Folk Stories from the Elmdale Community
- Litton, Gail Y. Piecing Patches and Quilting Up a Storm
- Arbuckle, Herbert C., III Chronological & Biblographical Listings of Texas Folklore
- Nye, Hermes Goin' Home with the Dasypus Novemcintus the Mystique of the Armadillo
- Cox, Sid The Home Place
- Emmons, Martha A Place Against the Sky
- Anderson, John Q. My Favorite Texan and Folklore
- Lowman, Al Love Among the Elephant Ears & Other True Stories
- Loughmiller, Lynn Bill Warren of the Big Thicket
- Welch, June R. A Tale of Not So Long Ago
- Patterson, Paul Night Horse Nightmare
- Rodenberger, Lou Texas Country Schoolteachers: Living Proof of a Legend
- Stokes, William N., Jr. Legal Lore from the Courthouse
- Cowser, R. L., Jr. Persimmon Beer
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- E-Heart Press Publisher of print version, Dallas
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University of North Texas. Libraries.
Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
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- Main Title: T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore
- Series Title: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
- Added Title: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society Number 44
Description
Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
Physical Description
xiii, 277 p. : ill., ports. ; digital (epub and mobi files)
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"Number XLIV."
This e-book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. http://www.neh.gov/
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- UNT Catalog No.: b5808105 | View in Discover
- Series Number: 44
- ISBN: 0935014039
- Library of Congress Control Number: 8270089
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc970081
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- T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore, ark:/67531/metadc67659
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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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Out-of-print books related to Texas and Oklahoma history, made available as ebooks thanks to a Humanities Open Book Program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence.
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T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore (Book)
Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about crafts, stories about vampires, stories about peyote ceremonies, prison folklore, folk songs, and other miscellaneous folk tales.
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- 2017
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- The First Texans, before 1519
- European Explorers in Texas, 1519-1689
- Spanish Texas, 1690-1821
- Mexican Texas, 1821-1835
- The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
- The Republic of Texas, 1836-1846
- Annexation, 1844-1846
- Slavery and Antebellum Texas Culture, 1821-1865
- The Texas Frontier, 1846-1861
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1876
- The Cattle Boom, 1865-1890
- New South, Populism, Progressivism, and the Great Depression, 1877-1939
- Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
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- May 2, 2017, 9:41 a.m.
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- Feb. 11, 2020, 11:44 a.m.
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- United States - Texas
- United States - Texas - Kerr County
- United States - Texas - Dallas County - Dallas
- United States - Texas - Nueces County
- United States - Texas - Wise County
- United States - Texas - Callahan County
- United States - Texas - El Paso County - El Paso
- United States - Texas - Montague County
- United States - South Carolina
- United States - Oklahoma
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Texas Folklore Society. T for Texas: a State Full of Folklore, book, 2017; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc970081/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.