| Singers and Storytellers Contributor(s): Boatright, Mody C. (Editor), Maxwell, Allen (Editor), Hudson, Wilson M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1574411071 ISBN-13: 9781574411072 Publisher: University of North Texas Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 398 |
| Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.05" W x 9.05" (1.01 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |