ISBN:
1574415328
,
9781574415322
,
9781574415445
,
1574415441
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 306 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LXIX
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cowboys, cops, killers, and ghosts
DDC:
398.209764
Keywords:
Legends Mexican-American Border Region
;
Legends Texas
;
Legends
;
Legends
;
Manners and customs
;
Biographies
;
Anecdotes
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology
;
Legends
;
Texas Social life and customs
;
Texas Anecdotes
;
History
;
Texas Biography
;
Anecdotes
;
North America
;
Mexican-American Border Region
;
Texas
;
Texas Biography
;
Anecdotes
;
Texas Social life and customs
;
Texas Anecdotes History
;
North America ; Mexican-American Border Region
;
Texas
;
Electronic books Anecdotes
;
Biography
;
Anecdotes
;
History
Abstract:
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone: articles on cowboys, a famous outlaw, how to discover your family culture, weddings, and how to fish
Description / Table of Contents:
On the job: legends and language in occupational lore. Recalling a Texas legend: Samuel Thomas 'Booger Red' Privett / Jerry YoungThe legacy of Bill Pickett, the Dusky Demon / Courtney Elliott -- Day work cowboys in the Depression era / Len Ainsworth -- Red Overton, Somervell County cedar chopper / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan -- Folklore of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin: myths, truths, and half-truths / Chuck Parsons -- Houston cop talk / Scott Hill Bumgardner -- Jury selection the old-fashioned way / Jerry B. Lincecum -- A sampling of Texas cultures: from bikers to Knanaya Catholics to Tejana culture: The Texas biker sub-culture and the ride of my life / Veronica Pozo -- Texas Knanaya Catholics and their wedding customs / Jenson Erapuram -- Hemphill: revisiting small-town Texas / Sue M. Friday -- Musica Tejana recording pioneers / Alex LaRotta -- "But, Miss, my family doesn't have a saga!" / Lucy Fischer-West -- Urban legends, ghost stories and towns, and searching for lost treasure. Living an urban legend: Galveston ball in the early 1970s / Gretchen Kay Lutz -- The truth versus the legend of the Interstate 45 Serial Killer / Marissa Gardner -- Ghost towns of the Big Thicket / Francis Edward Abernethy -- The ghost lights of Marfa / Stephanie Mateum -- Beyond Texas folklore: the Woman in Blue / Jennifer Curtis -- "There's gold in them there hills; or, silver at least" / Lee Haile -- Ben Sublett's gold / Winston Sosebee -- "Just for fun" lore. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty: fishing with Bubba / L. Patrick Hughes -- Texas Country churches / Pat Parsons -- Texas weddings: rattles on the garter and 'barb' wire in the flowers / Mildred B. Sentell -- Sally and Chance: an unusual love story / Sheila Morris -- They're still singin' and sayin' on the range: cowboy culture enters the 21st century / Charles Williams -- Contributors' vitas -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
