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001 10569012
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020 $a9781574415445 (ebook)
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050 00 $aGR110.T5$bC68 2013
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245 00 $aCowboys, cops, killers, and ghosts:$blegends and lore in Texas /$cedited by Kenneth L. Untiedt.
250 $aFirst edition.
263 $a1312
264 1 $aDenton, Texas :$bUniversity of North Texas Press,$c2013.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aPublications of the Texas Folklore Society ;$vLXIX
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOn the job: legends and language in occupational lore. Recalling a Texas legend: Samuel Thomas 'Booger Red' Privett / Jerry Young -- The legacy of Bill Pickett, the Dusky Demon / Courtney Elliott -- Day work cowboys in the Depression era / Len Ainsworth -- Red Overton, Somervell County cedar chopper / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan -- Folklore of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin: myths, truths, and half-truths / Chuck Parsons -- Houston cop talk / Scott Hill Bumgardner -- Jury selection the old-fashioned way / Jerry B. Lincecum -- A sampling of Texas cultures: from bikers to Knanaya Catholics to Tejana culture: The Texas biker sub-culture and the ride of my life / Veronica Pozo -- Texas Knanaya Catholics and their wedding customs / Jenson Erapuram -- Hemphill: revisiting small-town Texas / Sue M. Friday -- Musica Tejana recording pioneers / Alex LaRotta -- "But, Miss, my family doesn't have a saga!" / Lucy Fischer-West -- Urban legends, ghost stories and towns, and searching for lost treasure. Living an urban legend: Galveston ball in the early 1970s / Gretchen Kay Lutz -- The truth versus the legend of the Interstate 45 Serial Killer / Marissa Gardner -- Ghost towns of the Big Thicket / Francis Edward Abernethy -- The ghost lights of Marfa / Stephanie Mateum -- Beyond Texas folklore: the Woman in Blue / Jennifer Curtis -- "There's gold in them there hills; or, silver at least" / Lee Haile -- Ben Sublett's gold / Winston Sosebee -- "Just for fun" lore. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty: fishing with Bubba / L. Patrick Hughes -- Texas Country churches / Pat Parsons -- Texas weddings: rattles on the garter and 'barb' wire in the flowers / Mildred B. Sentell -- Sally and Chance: an unusual love story / Sheila Morris -- They're still singin' and sayin' on the range: cowboy culture enters the 21st century / Charles Williams -- Contributors' vitas -- Index.
650 0 $aLegends$zTexas.
650 0 $aLegends$zMexican-American Border Region.
651 0 $aTexas$vBiography$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aTexas$xHistory$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aTexas$xSocial life and customs.
700 1 $aUntiedt, Kenneth L.,$d1966-,$eeditor.
700 1 $aYoung, Jerry$c(Storyteller).$tRecalling a Texas legend.
830 0 $aPublications of the Texas Folklore Society ;$vno. 69.
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