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features and Pillers
Texas Jounalts n TexaqPAln re
Edited by Jim Harris
This is a book about the folk as jour-
nalists write about them.
Folklorist Jim Harris discovered
through writing his own column that
newspaper readers were hungry for ar-
ticles about their past. Readers were
starving for stories about the Native
Americans who once roamed the plains,
settlers who came from the east, the for-
mation of early 20th-century communi-
ties, abandoned school houses, how a
ghost town got its name, an infamous
stretch of county road, a famous ranch,
ranch dances held in decades past, an
old rodeo hand, a woman who lived in
a dugout when she was a girl, life in the
oil camps, hunting for arrowheads be-
low the caprock. In other words, what
people wanted to read was not so much
their history as their Jbfolklore, passed
down through the years, much of it by
word of mouth but some of it preserved
and circulated by other means.
Texas newspapers have fed and con-
tinue to feed their readers with local and
state-wide traditional life. Any observant
reader of Texas newspapers will find
examples of traditional life being re-
ported and analyzed in the state's pa-
pers, be they large circulation dailies in
metropolitan areas, such as The Dallas
Morning News, or small papers in ruralcontinued on backf/lap
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Texas Folklore Society. Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore, book, 1999; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38313/m1/2/?q=%22cat-bom%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.