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"Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie's most vital writings. He then meticulously edited Dobie's stories and essays to "prune away some of the brushy undergrowth" and bring Dobie's folksy, eru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Wittliff Collections (Albert B. Alkek Library)
Otros Autores: Davis, Steven L., 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dobie, J. Frank > (James Frank), > 1888-1964.
Dobie, J. Frank > (James Frank), > 1888-1964 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dobie, J. Frank > (James Frank), > 1888-1964 > Travel > Humor.
Dobie, J. Frank > (James Frank), > 1888-1964 > Travel > Anecdotes.
Authors, American.
Folklorists.
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Folkloristes > États-Unis > Biographies > Humour.
Écrivains americains > 20e siecle > Biographies > Humour.
Folklorists > United States > Biography > Humor.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography > Humor.
United States.
Texas.
Texas > Moeurs et coutumes > Humour.
Texas > Moeurs et coutumes > Anecdotes.
Texas > Social life and customs > Humor.
Texas > Social life and customs > Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Humour.
Anecdotes.
Humor.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
humor.
Biography
Wit and Humor
Anecdotes
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Introduction: Why an essential Dobie?
  • Part 1. Coyote wisdom: This, I believe
  • How my life took its turn
  • Voice of the coyote
  • Part 2. On the trail with a storyteller: Across the Bolson de Mapimi: echoes of the Comanche War trail
  • Charles Goodnight of Amplitude
  • Searching for lost Tayopa
  • The last of the mountain men
  • On the trail of the panther
  • Part 3. Open range tales: Snowdrift: the hunt for Montana's last wolf
  • The dream that saved Wilbarger
  • Sancho, the tamale-loving Longhorn
  • Part 4. The Southwestern tempo: Earth rhythms and the Southwestern tempo
  • The Mesquite
  • What every curandera knows
  • The madstone cure
  • Praying for rain
  • The campfire
  • Part 5. The Brush Country: A plot of earth
  • The buried gold at Fort Ramirez
  • I remember Buck
  • Part 6. Wild and free: Cedar fever
  • The beginnings of Big Bend National Park
  • The Longhorn's dying bellow
  • Stompedes
  • Wild and free
  • The Paisano, our fellow countryman
  • Part 7. Europe amid two world wars: ... from two letters to Bertha
  • Dobie during World War I
  • A day with the Basques
  • Birds under bombs: in England during World War II
  • Across the Rhine: travels in postwar Germany
  • Part 8. Texas needs brains: Texas needs brains
  • True patriots and Pappy O'Daniel
  • Only a man with eyes in the back of his head
  • ... Dobie on civil rights
  • The difference between liberals and reactionaries
  • On censorship
  • Part 9. Life and literature of the Southwest: Professional educators and the "unctuous elaboration of the obvious"
  • On the Texas Institute of Letters
  • Along the Devils River-and away from the cedar pollen
  • Change, change, change
  • Two Texas barbecues, sixty years apart
  • The writer and his region
  • A corner forever Texas
  • Acknowledgments
  • Story credits.

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