Mexican-American traditions are richly nourished by the folkways of three cultures: Indian, Spanish, and Mexican. This comprehensive look at the Mexican-American world includes a range of traditional proverbs, riddles, stories and folksongs; folk narrative, from Pancho Villa to urban ghosts, saints to revolutionaries; customs, from household shrines to irrigation rituals to charreadas, or Mexican-style rodeos; children's games, home remedies, folk foods, crafts, dress, and more. Besides its wide range of folk genres, Mexican-American Folklore is also broad-ranging in space it covers the...
Mexican-American traditions are richly nourished by the folkways of three cultures: Indian, Spanish, and Mexican. This comprehensive look at the Mexic...
Tom Lea's "The Wonderful Country" opens as mejicano pistolero Martin Bredi is returning to El Puerto El Paso] after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro's business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier--shortly after the end of the Civil War--when he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martin Bredi. Back in Texas Brady breaks a leg; then he falls in love with a married woman while recuperating; and, finally, to right another wrong, he kills a man. When...
Tom Lea's "The Wonderful Country" opens as mejicano pistolero Martin Bredi is returning to El Puerto El Paso] after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi ca...
Martin Bredi, a man who killed his father's murderer and fled to Mexico, returns to El Paso after a 14-year absence. There he breaks a leg, falls in love with a married woman and, finally, to right another wrong, he kills a man. Bredi becomes a man without a country.
Martin Bredi, a man who killed his father's murderer and fled to Mexico, returns to El Paso after a 14-year absence. There he breaks a leg, falls in l...
Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and delivery of a face-to-face performance, and artfully, delightfully done." Review of Texas Books"Scarcely a page will you turn in this collection of ghost stories in Texas without encountering a disembodied hand or a fang baby creatures guaranteed to shock the shell of an armadillo. . . . Whether you read the tales out loud or spin them around a...
Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn...
