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Texian stomping grounds, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatright [and] Harry H. Ransom.

By: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 [editor.].
Contributor(s): Boatright, Mody Coggin, 1896-1970 | Ransom, Harry Huntt, 1908-1976.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society: no. 17.Publisher: Austin, Texas Folk-lore Society, 1941Description: 162 pages illustrations 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Jesus Christ -- Drama | Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas | Texas -- Social life and customs | Ranch life | Games -- Texas | Folklore -- Texas | African Americans -- FolkloreAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Texian stomping grounds.DDC classification: 398 LOC classification: GR1 | .T4 no.17
Contents:
On the Jefferson Road / Frank Bryan -- "Hoping out" in East Texas / Guy Kirtley -- Pie suppers in East Texas / Virginia Walker -- Yogi Oil / Lloyd E. Price -- The Austin hill folk / Elsie Upton -- Frijoles / Roy Holt -- Rancho Buena Vista / Fermina Guerra -- Honor the fiddler! / J. Olcutt Sanders -- Toodala / Helen Gates -- Play party games of South Texas / Laura Atkins -- Negro folk tales / Lucy M. Cobb and Mary A. Hicks -- The Voodoo man of the Brazos / Archie Steagall -- How the burrow tricked the buzzard / Genoveva Barrera -- Will-o'-the-Wisp of the Esperanza / John W. Blackwell -- The Ford epigram / Newton Gaines -- The life of Christ in ten acts / John H. Faulk -- Pioneer children's games / Ida B. Hall.
Subject: Contains sketches of post-war life in East Texas, descriptions of early recreations and games, and account of the hill people near Austihn, a reminiscence of ranching life in the West, stories long current among the people, African American tales, and a first-hand report of an African American folk play of the life of Christ.
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On the Jefferson Road / Frank Bryan -- "Hoping out" in East Texas / Guy Kirtley -- Pie suppers in East Texas / Virginia Walker -- Yogi Oil / Lloyd E. Price -- The Austin hill folk / Elsie Upton -- Frijoles / Roy Holt -- Rancho Buena Vista / Fermina Guerra -- Honor the fiddler! / J. Olcutt Sanders -- Toodala / Helen Gates -- Play party games of South Texas / Laura Atkins -- Negro folk tales / Lucy M. Cobb and Mary A. Hicks -- The Voodoo man of the Brazos / Archie Steagall -- How the burrow tricked the buzzard / Genoveva Barrera -- Will-o'-the-Wisp of the Esperanza / John W. Blackwell -- The Ford epigram / Newton Gaines -- The life of Christ in ten acts / John H. Faulk -- Pioneer children's games / Ida B. Hall.

Contains sketches of post-war life in East Texas, descriptions of early recreations and games, and account of the hill people near Austihn, a reminiscence of ranching life in the West, stories long current among the people, African American tales, and a first-hand report of an African American folk play of the life of Christ.

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