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A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune

Description: Volume of miscellaneous folklore about Texas and Mexico, including Mexican folktales, Texas folk songs, information about Texas streams and information about racial discrimination in the South. The index begins on page 273.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
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Partner: UNT Press

Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
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Partner: UNT Press

Coffee in the Gourd

Description: Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
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Partner: UNT Press

Corners of Texas

Description: This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including information about folk music, folk arts and crafts, history of Texas, prominent Texas writers, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 285.
Date: 1993
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
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Partner: UNT Press

Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

Description: This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
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Partner: UNT Press

Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd

Description: This volume includes information about the play-party in Oklahoma, folklore of Texas birds, tall tales, folk anecdotes, Texas folk songs and ballads, and other folklore (back cover). The index begins on page 185.
Date: 2000
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
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Partner: UNT Press

Map of the State of Texas from the Latest Authorities

Description: Full color atlas map by county of the state of Texas, showing county towns, post offices, forts, railroads, roads, and water bodies. Map includes a population table, and notes on Rio Grande, Grande Indian Crossing, El Llano Estacado, and railroads in Texas. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,400,000] (approximately 55 miles to the inch). There is an inset map in the upper-left corner titled “Northern Texas,” on the same scale as the larger map, and an inset map in the lower-left corner t… more
Date: 185u
Creator: Young, J. H. & Sculp, J. L. Hazzard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Sketch of Texas

Description: Sketch map of the state of Texas, showing major cities and water bodies, with two proposals for the Texas northwestern boundary, Clay's Compromise Line and Pearce's Line. Map includes table of "Areas" in the lower-left corner. Relief shown in hachures. No scale information given.
Date: September 5, 1850
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Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Historic Marker Application: Halff House]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Halff House, in San Antonio, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1991
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
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Partner: Texas Historical Commission

Map of the State of Texas from the Latest Authorities

Description: Atlas map of Texas, showing county towns, post offices, forts, railroads, roads, and water bodies. Map includes a population table, and notes on Rio Grande, Grande Indian Crossing, El Llano Estacado, and railroads in Texas. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,400,000] (approximately 55 miles to the inch). There is an inset map in the upper-left corner titled “Northern Texas,” on the same scale as the larger map, and an inset map in the lower-left corner titled "Map of the Vicinity of Galve… more
Date: 185u
Creator: Young, J. H. & Sculp, J. L. Hazzard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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