| Bounty of Texas Contributor(s): Abernethy, Francis Edward (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0929398149 ISBN-13: 9780929398143 Publisher: University of North Texas Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - History |
| Dewey: 398.097 |
| LCCN: 90-12417 |
| Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.35" W x 9.31" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend of West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this Texas Folklore Society Publication includes a heretofore unpublished outdoors sketch by J. Frank Dobie on deer hunting and a piece by Bertha McKee Dobie on Frank's interest in grasses. Elmer Kelton, Joyce Roach, and Robert Flynn take a humorous look at their work and hometowns, and Kenneth Davis tells tales of souls departing their bodies. There are essays on the bounty of the tables of the earlier settlers, and the state's ethnic heritages through the German Volksfest in Brenham. The folk-song scholarship of Dorothy Scarborough, the art of Ben Mead, a look at prison language, and much more are included in this bountiful book. |