| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; LXIV |
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 64
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| Contents |
Folk travel in Texas. Texans on the road : the folklore of travel / Jim Harris -- Traveling Texan / Archie P. McDonald -- Red River Bridge War / Jerry B. Lincecum -- Wagon train experience / Carol Hanson -- Farm and ranch entrances in West Texas / Mary Harris -- Back in the day. Legends of the trail / Francis E. Abernethy -- The passage of Scotland's four = El pasaje de los cuatro de Escocia / Consuelo L. Samarripa -- Gone to (south) Texas / Janet McCannon Simonds -- Fannie Marchman's journey from Atlanta, Georgia to Jefferson, Texas / Ellen Pearson -- Walter Henry Burton's ride : Bell County to Juarez, Mexico in 1888 / James Burton Kelly -- The galloping gourmet, or, The chuck wagon cook and his craft / John O. West -- The language of the trail drivers : an examination of the origin and diffusion of an industry-oriented vocabulary / W.C. Jameson -- The modern era : tales of rails and highways. Rail remembrances : the train in folk memory and imagination / L. Patrick Hughes -- Safe in the arms of trainmen / Jan Epton Seale -- Tales of the rails / Charlie Oden -- The Ford epigram / Newton Gaines -- Watch the Fords go by : the automobile comes to old Bell County / Kenneth W. Davis -- Driving across Texas at thirty-five miles per hour / Jean Granberry Schnitz -- Still movin' on, any way they can. High flyin' times / Barbara Pybas -- Back in the saddle again : riding the chrome-moly horse / Lucille Enix -- Iron Butt Saddlesore / Paul N. Yeager -- The unspoken code of chivalry among drag racers / Gretchen Lutz -- Eating up Route 66 : foodways of motorists crossing the Texas Panhandle / T. Lindsay Baker -- There's life beyond the Sonic : growing up cruising / Charlie McCormack |
| Summary |
The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life "on the go." This work contains traditional "Gone to Texas" accounts and articles about people or methods of travel from days gone by |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 14, 2017) |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Travel -- Folklore
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Travelers' writings, American -- Texas
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Folklore -- Texas
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TRAVEL.
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Folklore.
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Manners and customs.
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Travel.
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Travelers' writings, American.
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
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Texas -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
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Texas -- Folklore
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| Subject |
Texas.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Folklore.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- editor
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Texas Folklore Society, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9781435686779 |
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9781597344814 |
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1435686772 |
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1281923346 |
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1597344818 |
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9781574413854 |
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1574413856 |
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9786611923341 |
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9781281923349 |
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6611923349 |
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