Contributing Authors Include Stow Persons, Gordon Mills, Elton Miles And Others. Papers Read At The Fourth Annual Meeting Of The American Studies Association Of Texas At Houston, Texas, December 5, 1959.

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

Contributing Authors Include Stow Persons, Gordon Mills, Elton Miles And Others. Papers Read At The Fourth Annual Meeting Of The American Studies Association Of Texas At Houston, Texas, December 5, 1959.

Contributors Include J. Frank Dobie, Ruth Dodson, Soledad Perez, Wilson M. Hudson And Jose Cisneros.

Contains Three Papers Titled: Witchcraft In The Novels Of Sir Walter Scott; Demonology In The Novels Of Scott And Scott's Theory And Practice Concerning The Use Of The Supernatural In Prose Fiction In Relation To The Chronology Of The Waverly Novels.

Contains Three Papers Titled: Witchcraft In The Novels Of Sir Walter Scott; Demonology In The Novels Of Scott And Scott's Theory And Practice Concerning The Use Of The Supernatural In Prose Fiction In Relation To The Chronology Of The Waverly Novels.

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

Most of the essays among the twenty-nine making up this collection salute taletellers, furnishing demonstrations by way of tall tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, and superstitions and folk medicine. Add tales of outlaws, buried-treasure searches, ethnic lore localized in the state, and many other subjects, and you have something to suit anybody's taste. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

Like the more than a dozen other contributions in this volume, "The Golden Log" typifies the combined universality and fresh and authentic regional flavor of southwestern lore and legend. The Texas Folklore Society offers these tales of early Texas days, told as they were told of old.

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items, like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic, anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the philosophy of the folk. The theme and hero of the volume, Old Man Coyote, is animal and folk character. Indian legends are well represented in Coyote Wisdom, a Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie's chapter on "The Traveling Anecdote." Also included are Roy Bedichek on "Folklore in Natural History;" "The Names of Western Wild Animals," by George D. Hendricks; "Bonny Barbara Allen," by Joseph W. Hendren; "Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other Motifs in Oil," by Mody C. Boatright; "The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada," by Robert C. Stephenson; "The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry," by Americo Paredes; "Emerson and the Language of the Folk," by John Q. Anderson; "Tales of Neiman-Marcus," by James Howard; "The Devil in the Big Bend," by Elton Miles; and others.

The state of Texas is fortunate in possessing a rich and varied folklore. When white settlers from the Old South came in bringing their African slaves, they found the Mexicans in possession, and before them there were the Indians. These four racial groups maintained their separate identities, languages, religions, and cultures, making their folkways and folklore distinct and characteristic. This volume is composed of materials published originally in the first twenty-five volumes of the Texas Folklore Society.