Happy Hunting Ground (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Band 4) - Softcover

Dobie, J. Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574410946 ISBN 13: 9781574410945

Verlag: University of North Texas Press, 2000

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This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925. Included are articles on Mexican popular ballad; Spanish songs of New Mexico; versos of the Texas vaqueros; reptile myths; the cowboy dance of the northwest; superstitions of the Northern Seas; oil field diction; folk tales of the Chibcha nation; the human hand in primitive art; and Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill. It also includes “When the Woods Were Burnt,” by L. W. Payne Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society.

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J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas. In 1922, he became secretary of the Texas Folklore Society and held the post for 21 years.

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• Verlag: University of North Texas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1574410946
• ISBN 13: 9781574410945
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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