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Author Boatright, Mody C. (Mody Coggin), 1896-1970, editor.

Title Backwoods to Border
Edition Reprint
Published Denton : University of North Texas Press 1967 College Station : Texas A & M University Press [distributor]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Texas Folklore Society Publications No. 18
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 18.
Contents A buffalo hunter and his song / J. Frank Dobie -- The Arkansas traveler / Catherine Marshall Vineyard -- Backwoods Belles / Mody C. Boatright -- "Well done, liar" / Charles F. Arrowood -- Moses Evans: the Wild Man of the woods / Donald Day -- At a branding party / Frank Goodwyn -- Cowboy dance calls / Vanita Parrett -- The legend of the valley of paint / J. Marvin Hunter -- Grave decoration / Dorothy Jean Michael -- The ghost nun / Ruth Dodson -- Fighting a nest of bumblebees / Annie Romberg -- Folklore of Texas plants / Sadie Hatfield -- Negro nicknames / Ruby Terrill Lomax -- Two Negro folk tales / William H. Vann -- Riddles of Texas Mexican children / J.A. Richard -- Mexican animal tales / Fermina Guerra -- Rope-jumping rhymes / Violet West Sone -- Pipe-line diction / Orlan L. Sawey -- Anecdotes about lawyers / Lloyd E. Price -- Proceedings of the Texas Folk-lore Society, 1942
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Folk Songs, American
Folklore -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore
Frontier and pioneer life
United States
West United States
Form Electronic book
Author Day, Donald, 1899-1991, editor.
LC no. 48018054
ISBN 9780870740114
0870740113
0585268452
9780585268453