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9781574410945
This 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; Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill. Includes "When the Woods Were Burnt," by L. W. Payne, Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society. Book jacket.Dobie, J. Frank is the author of 'Happy Hunting Ground' with ISBN 9781574410945 and ISBN 1574410946.
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