Cowboys, Cops, Killers, and Ghosts : Legends and Lore in Texas /

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This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone: articles on cowboys, a famous outlaw, how to discover your family culture, weddings, and how to fish.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Young, Jerry (Storyteller), Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Legends.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Legendes > Texas.
Legendes > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Legends > Texas.
Legends > Mexican-American Border Region.
Texas.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Texas > Biographies > Anecdotes.
Texas > Moeurs et coutumes.
Texas > Biography > Anecdotes.
Texas > History > Anecdotes.
Texas > Social life and customs.
History.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On the job: legends and language in occupational lore. Recalling a Texas legend: Samuel Thomas 'Booger Red' Privett / Jerry Young
  • The legacy of Bill Pickett, the Dusky Demon / Courtney Elliott
  • Day work cowboys in the Depression era / Len Ainsworth
  • Red Overton, Somervell County cedar chopper / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan
  • Folklore of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin: myths, truths, and half-truths / Chuck Parsons
  • Houston cop talk / Scott Hill Bumgardner
  • Jury selection the old-fashioned way / Jerry B. Lincecum
  • A sampling of Texas cultures: from bikers to Knanaya Catholics to Tejana culture: The Texas biker sub-culture and the ride of my life / Veronica Pozo
  • Texas Knanaya Catholics and their wedding customs / Jenson Erapuram
  • Hemphill: revisiting small-town Texas / Sue M. Friday
  • Musica Tejana recording pioneers / Alex LaRotta
  • "But, Miss, my family doesn't have a saga!" / Lucy Fischer-West
  • Urban legends, ghost stories and towns, and searching for lost treasure. Living an urban legend: Galveston ball in the early 1970s / Gretchen Kay Lutz
  • The truth versus the legend of the Interstate 45 Serial Killer / Marissa Gardner
  • Ghost towns of the Big Thicket / Francis Edward Abernethy
  • The ghost lights of Marfa / Stephanie Mateum
  • Beyond Texas folklore: the Woman in Blue / Jennifer Curtis
  • "There's gold in them there hills; or, silver at least" / Lee Haile
  • Ben Sublett's gold / Winston Sosebee
  • "Just for fun" lore. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty: fishing with Bubba / L. Patrick Hughes
  • Texas Country churches / Pat Parsons
  • Texas weddings: rattles on the garter and 'barb' wire in the flowers / Mildred B. Sentell
  • Sally and Chance: an unusual love story / Sheila Morris
  • They're still singin' and sayin' on the range: cowboy culture enters the 21st century / Charles Williams
  • Contributors' vitas
  • Index.

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