Happy Hunting Ground [electronic resource] / edited by J. Frank Dobie.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of North Texas Press 2000

Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 4

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (133, 22 pages :) illustrations ;

Subjects:

Folklore.
Folklore -- Texas.
Texas.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

Annotation 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.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1964 facsimile ed., published by Southern Methodist University Press.
Description based on print version record.

Contributor:

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964.

Contains:

Payne, Leonidas Warren, 1873-1945. When the woods were burnt.

ISBN:

0-585-25364-1

OCLC:

52442287

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access star

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