The first publication resulting from a study of the impact of the oil industry upon the folklore and the folkways of the American people. It includes collections of stories about the life Gib Morgan lived and the tales he told. A Texas Folklore Society Publication.

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society begins with "A Buffalo Hunter and His Song," by Texas folklorist and Society editor J. Frank Dobie. The book is a collection of nineteen Texas folk tales, including "Cowboy Dance Calls," "Grave Decoration," "The Ghost Nun," "Ghost Stories from Texas College for Women," "Folklore of Texas Plants," "Mexican Animal Tales," and "Anecdotes About Lawyers."

A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie's chapter on "The Traveling Anecdote." Also included are Roy Bedichek on "Folklore in Natural History;" "The Names of Western Wild Animals," by George D. Hendricks; "Bonny Barbara Allen," by Joseph W. Hendren; "Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other Motifs in Oil," by Mody C. Boatright; "The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada," by Robert C. Stephenson; "The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry," by Americo Paredes; "Emerson and the Language of the Folk," by John Q. Anderson; "Tales of Neiman-Marcus," by...

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains fifteen folk tales. The title of this book alludes to two branches of folklore that exist side by side in Texas, the English and the Mexican.

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Indian pictographs in the Big Bend, the cowboy dance, a miscellany of Texas folk songs, blues as folk songs, German customs in Gillespie County, customs and superstitions of Texas-Mexicans along the Rio Grande, and weather wisdom along the border. Contributors include L. W. Payne, Walter P. Webb, A. W. Eddins, Dorothy Scarborough, J. Frank Dobie.

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The title of this volume comes from an essay by Hugh M. Taylor, "Spur-of-the-Cock: Hero of the Mayo Indians." Also included is an old New Mexican folk play, "Canto del Nino Perdido," edited by Mary R. Van Stone and E. R. Sims, followed by folk names of Texas cacti, cats and the occult, and old-time African-American proverbs by J. Mason Brewer.

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The folklorists explore ranch remedies, folk medicine, folk tales and songs of Texas-Mexicans, and research in balladry and folk songs, among other topics.

In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend of West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this Texas Folklore Society Publication includes a heretofore unpublished outdoors sketch by J. Frank Dobie on deer hunting and a piece by Bertha McKee Dobie on Frank s interest in grasses. Elmer Kelton, Joyce Roach, and Robert Flynn take a humorous look at their work and hometowns, and Kenneth Davis tells tales of souls departing their bodies. There are essays on the bounty of the tables of the earlier settlers, and the state s ethnic heritages through the German Volksfest in...

The Society had its beginnings at the A&M-Texas football game in 1909. John Avery Lomax, a forty-two-year-old A&M English teacher from Harvard and Leonidas Warren Payne, a thirty-six year old UT English professor and linguist, met to discuss establishing a folklore society, as had been suggested by George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard. The announced purpose of the society was to collect and make known to the public songs and ballads, superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs, legends, dialects, games, plays, and dances, and riddles and proverbs.