Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

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.

Physical Description

261 p. : ill. ; digital (epub and mobi files)

Creation Information

Texas Folklore Society 2017.

Context

This book is part of the collection entitled: Texas Folklore Society Publications and was provided by the UNT Press to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 61 times. More information about this book can be viewed below.

Author

Texas Folklore Society

Editors

Contributing Authors

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 The Traveling Anecdote
Bedicheck, Roy Folklore in Natural History
Hendricks, George D. The Names of Western Wild Animals
Hendren, Joseph W. Bonny Barbara Allen
Stephenson, Robert C. The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada; Signature in Ballad and Story
Paredes, Americo The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry
Hurley, Elizabeth Come Buy, Come Buy
Rissmann, E. J. Folkways on Bear Creek
Anderson, John Q. Emerson and the Language of the Folk
Howard, James Tales of Neiman-Marcus
Sawey, Orlan L. Origins of Uvalde County Cattle Brands
Cordova, Gabriel Black and White Magic on the Texas-Mexican Border
Gillis, Everett A. Weather Talk from the Cap Rock
Miles, Elton R. The Devil in the Big Bend
Hendricks, Peggy Wham, Jam, Jenny-Mo-Wham
Smith, Richard Richard's Tales

Printers

Wilkinson Printing Company
Southern Methodist University Press Publisher of print version, Dallas

Publisher

University of North Texas. Libraries.
Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

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UNT Press

The University of North Texas Press was founded in 1987 and published its first book in 1989. Though it is the newest university press in North Texas, it has quickly become a leading press with the most titles in print (more than 300) and published (15 to 18 each year). The UNT Press is a fully accredited member of the Association of American University Presses. Its books are distributed and marketed nationally and internationally through the Texas A&M University Press Consortium.

Titles

Main Title: Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk
Added Title: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Number 25
Series Title: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society

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.

Physical Description

261 p. : ill. ; digital (epub and mobi files)

Notes

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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Identifier

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UNT Catalog No.: b5808085 | View in Discover
Accession or Local Control No: Publication Number 25
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc970072

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Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk, ark:/67531/metadc38314

Collections

This book is part of the following collections of related materials.

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.

Broadening Access to Books on Texas and Oklahoma

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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