Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories

Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories
Author: Jim Gramon
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461720877

Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch to the Panhandle, from the Big Bend to the Piney Woods; big towns and small (Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Terlingua, Manchaca, Cumby, Sulfur Springs, Commerce).

The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954

The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954
Author: Mody Coggin Boatright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780585328751

A representative anthology of Texas folklore from the first half of the twentieth century, including legends, ghost stories, songs, proverbs, and other writings.

Between the Cracks of History

Between the Cracks of History
Author: Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781574410365

Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cowboys, Cops, Killers, and Ghosts

Cowboys, Cops, Killers, and Ghosts
Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2013-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1574415328

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone. The first section features a good bit of occupational lore, including articles on cowboys—both legendary ones and the relatively unknown men who worked their trade day by day wherever they could. You’ll also find a unique, personal look at a famous outlaw and learn about a teacher’s passion for encouraging her students to discover their own family culture, as well as unusual weddings, somewhat questionable ways to fish, and one woman’s love affair with a bull. The backbone of the PTFS series has always been miscellanies—diverse examinations of the many types of lore found throughout Texas and the Southwest. These books offer a glimpse of what goes on at our annual meetings, as the best of the papers presented are frequently selected for our publications. Of course, the presentations are only a part of what the Society does at the meetings, but reading these publications offers insight into our members’ interests in everything from bikers and pioneers of Tejana music to serial killers and simple folk from small-town Texas. These works also suggest the importance of the “telling of the tale,” with an emphasis on oral tradition, as well as some of the customs we share. All of these things together— the focus on tradition at our meetings, the fellowship among members, and the diversity of our research—are what sustain the Texas Folklore Society.

Texas and Southwestern Lore

Texas and Southwestern Lore
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1927
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

This Volume Number 6 contains folklore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero; Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household; Lore of the Llano Estacado; Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory; Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields; The Devil's Grotto; Myths of the Tejas Indians; Ballads and songs of the Frontier Folk; several essays on cowboys songs, etc.

Eats

Eats
Author: Ernestine P. Sewell
Publisher: TCU Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1989
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780875650357

A collection of pictures, historical information folklore and recipes of Texas foods.

Hecho en Tejas

Hecho en Tejas
Author: Joe S. Graham
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1997-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781574410389

When the early Spanish and Mexican colonists came to settle Texas, they brought with them a rich culture, the diversity of which is nowhere more evident than in the folk art and folk craft. This first book-length publication to focus on Texas-Mexican material culture shows the richness of Tejano folk arts and crafts traditions.

At Home On The Range with a Texas Hunter

At Home On The Range with a Texas Hunter
Author: Henry Chappell
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001-02-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1461708400

Bobwhites in the Texas panhandle, prairie grouse in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Gambel's quail in New Mexico's arroyos, blue quail on the staked plains, and doves and Mearn's quail in Arizona. In these lyrical essays, Henry Chappell examines the bonds that exist between hunter, hunting dog, land, and prey. At Home on the Range with a Texas Hunter evokes a powerful sense of history and place and never shies from the responsibilities and ethical struggles every hunter faces.