Cowboys, cops, killers, and ghosts: legends and lore in Texas / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
Contributor(s): Untiedt, Kenneth L [editor of compilation.] | Young, Jerry (Storyteller). Recalling a Texas legend.
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TextSeries: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society: no. 69.Publisher: 2013Edition: First edition.Description: ix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1574415328 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781574415322 (cloth : alk. paper); 1574415441 (ebook); 9781574415445 (ebook).Subject(s): Legends -- Texas | Legends -- Mexican-American Border Region | Texas -- Biography -- Anecdotes | Texas -- History -- Anecdotes | Texas -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 398.209764 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | University of Texas At Tyler Stacks - 3rd Floor | GR1 .T4 no.69 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000002203388 |
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| GR910 .R3 1971 Superstitions of sailors. | GR1 .A52 V.32 Afro-American folk culture : | GR1 .T4 INDEX Analytical index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, volumes 1-36 | GR1 .T4 no.69 2013 Cowboys, cops, killers, and ghosts: | GR50 .M54 1998 Storytellers : | GR66 .S74 1992 V.1 Folklore and folklife : | GR66 .S74 1992 V.2 Folklore and folklife : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On the job: legends and language in occupational lore. Recalling a Texas legend: Samuel Thomas 'Booger Red' Privett / Jerry Young -- The 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 'barbwire' 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.
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