The state of Texas is fortunate in possessing a rich and varied folklore. This volume is composed of materials published originally in the first twenty-five volumes of the Texas Folklore Society.
From the preface by Francis Edward Abernethy: "Those old annuals are filled with real, field-collected folklore. Most of that early collected folklore had never been in print before."

"Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago," was the favorite toast of John A. Lomax, co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society, which lends its name to this volume which opens with J. Frank Dobie's sketch of Lomax. It is followed by Lomax's own "Cowboy Lingo," found among Dobie's papers, and by two other articles on the cowboy by men whose names sound out in the history of southwestern writing--Eugene Manlove Rhodes and Andy Adams.
The theme of the cowboy and the West is further pursued in "The Cowboy Code," by Paul Patterson, "The Cowboy Enters the Movies," by Mody Boatright, "Billy the...

Most of the essays among the twenty-nine making up this collection salute taletellers, furnishing demonstrations by way of tall tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, and superstitions and folk medicine. Add tales of outlaws, buried-treasure searches, ethnic lore localized in the state, and many other subjects, and you have something to suit anybody's taste. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

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...

Like the more than a dozen other contributions in this volume, "The Golden Log" typifies the combined universality and fresh and authentic regional flavor of southwestern lore and legend. The Texas Folklore Society offers these tales of early Texas days, told as they were told of old.

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