Mexican Border Ballads and Other Lore

Mody C. Boatright (Editor)

$15.95

Publication Date: June 1st, 2000

Publisher:

University of North Texas Press

ISBN:

9781574410907

Pages:

148

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Description

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains “Corridos of the Mexican Border” by Brownie McNeil; “The Envious and the Envied Compadres” by Wilson M. Hudson; “Do Rattlesnakes Swallow Their Young?” by J. Frank Dobie; “Folktales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians” by Howard N. Martin; “John Tales” by J. Mason Brewer; “The Literary Growth of the Louisiana Bullfrog” by Robert T. Clark; and “In Defense of Mrs. Mann” by Andrew Forest Muir.

About the Author

Mody C. Boatright (1896–1970) served as Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society for twenty years. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, where he taught for four decades. His contributions to folklore study and the Texas Folklore Society are innumerable.