Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales, and Talk
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$20.95
Publication Date: June 1st, 2000
Publisher:
University of North Texas Press
ISBN:
9781574411096
Pages:
261
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Description
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.
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