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Title:
Folklore : in all of us, in all we do / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
Publisher:
University of North Texas Press,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Folklore--Texas.
Occupations--Texas--Folklore.
Texas--Folklore.
Texas--Social life and customs.
Other Authors:
Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004102527
Texas Folklore Society. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79145137
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Is it folklore or history? : the answer may be important / Tom Crum -- The roadrunner in fact and folk-lore / J. Frank Dobie -- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews -- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County ; The cooking extravaganza : sequel to Gathering at Bill's / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. Mosel-Talavera -- Madame Blackley : seer of south Texas / Henry Wolff, Jr -- La Llorona's ancestry : crossing cultural boundaries / Gloria Duarte -- Burning brightly : the Easter fires of maternal necessity / Donna Melitio -- Five stands off bottom / Lew Schnitz -- Dispatches from the electronic front lines / Charles Williams -- A rural mail carrier / Milt McAfee (as told by Ben Mead) -- The trials and tribulations of a dirt road country doctor / Mildred Boren Sentell -- Joe Fitzgerald, nurseryman and philosopher / Mary Joe (Fitzgerald) Clendenin -- Water woes and water ways : tales of Texas engineer John B. Hawley / Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore -- The long arm of the law / Martha Emmons -- The police language : the lore of law enforcement communication in west Texas / Kenneth L. Untiedt -- Cactus Jack Garner as folk hero : vice-president of the United States 1933-1940 / Lora B. Garrison -- And lo to Vernon came : the con man, the bootlegger man, and the music man / William N. Stokes, Jr -- Horsetrading and ethics / J. Rhett Rushing -- The lore of retirement and extended care facilities / Kenneth W. Davis -- Folksy, but devout, bookkeeping / George Wilmeth Ewing -- Mi fronteridad in the classroom : the power of writing and sharing stories / Meredith E. Abarca.
Series:
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; 63
ISBN:
9781574412239
157441223X
OCLC:
(OCoLC)70839717
LCCN:
2006024644
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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