Singers and Storytellers
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$21.95
Publication Date: June 1st, 2000
Publisher:
University of North Texas Press
ISBN:
9781574411072
Pages:
304
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Description
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.
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