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The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954 Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 26
author
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Boatright, Mody Coggin; Hudson, Wilson Mathis; Maxwell, Allen
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574410555
print isbn13
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9781574410556
ebook isbn13
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9780585328751
language
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English
subject
Folklore--Texas, University of North Texas.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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GR110.T4B47 1998eb
ddc
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398/.09764
subject
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Folklore--Texas, University of North Texas.
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The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore 19161954
Edited by
Mody C. Boatright Wilson M. Hudson Allen Maxwell
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
Mody C. Boatright, Editor
Wilson M. Hudson, Associate Editor
Allen Maxwell, Associate Editor
Number XXVI
Texas Folk and Folklore
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Copyright 1954 Texas Folklore Society All rights reserved Copyright 1998 Texas Folklore Society
Printed in the United States of America
First Paperback Edition 1998
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Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to:
Permissions University of North Texas Press P. O. Box 311336 Denton, Texas 76203-1336 940-565-2142
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, Z39.48.1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Boatright, Mody Coggin, 18961970 Texas folk and folklore, edited by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson [and] Allen Maxwell. 356 p. illus. 24cm (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society no. 26) 1. FolkloreTexas. I. Hudson, Wilson Mathis, 1907 joint ed. II. Maxwell, Allen, 1915joint ed. III. Cisneros, Jos, 1910 illus. IV. Title (Series) GR1 . TD no. 26 398 54-11200 ISBN 1-57441-055-5
Cover design by Accent Design and Communications
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PREFACE
I am always jealous when I read through the early Publications of the Texas Folklore Society. Those old annuals are filled with real, field collected folklore, with stories and songs and superstitions that truly had been passed down traditionally, from one generation to the next, without benefit of printing press, radio, or television.
Most of that early collected folklore had never been in print before, because there were few avenues of publication for that sort of material. And then, in 1916, Stith Thompson published PTFS #1 and the series was started. Following Thompson, Frank Dobie collected and edited twenty-odd years of Texas folklore, which consisted of our richest beginnings. Dobie found Mason Brewer, Riley Aiken, Howard Martin, Julia Estil, and all those other folklorists who were living in this untapped vein of richness, and the Texas Folklore Society became the preserver and publisher of some of the richest primary folklore materials in the world.
Mody Boatright followed Frank Dobie as TFS editor and in 1954, after twenty-five annual publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Mody and associate editor Wilson M. Hudson published this anthology, Texas Folk and Folklore (PTFS XXVI, 1954). It became the textbook for Texas folklore studies and the best and most representative anthology of Texas folklore on the market.
As of now, 1998, Texas Folk and Folklore has been out of print. The Society retrieves it this year because of its intrinsic value and because at this near-century mark we wish to have under one cover the best folk and folklore in Texas from the first half of the twentieth century. We hope to pair it with its offspring of the second half of the century.
Do not look for 1998 political correctness in this volume. This was two generations before we arrived at that social caveat. Time was still "the old times" in 1954. The manners and morals of the 1950s were about the same as those of our fathers and our grand-
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fathers. Socially Texans were conservative, rural, even Victorian in their moralities, and their ethnic and racial attitudes were still WASP dominant. The Negro tales included herein were pre-integration, and the Mexican tales were pre-mass-migration. We present this folklore as the best and most representative of its timenot ourswith no apologies for the attitudes of our parents and grandparents. Right or wrong by 1998 standards, the people who collected and printed this folklore were the intellectuals of their time and were as socially sensitive and sympathetic as we are in ours. And the folklore that they collected then was that which was current and represented the attitudes of their time.
The Texas Folklore Society is now ninety years old and has published twenty-nine more volumes after the Society's midlife anthology in 1954. And the Society has never run out of areas of collecting and research. College campuses, rodeo arenas, lawyers, and all levels of politics have their folklore. At the present time, as many tales of the president are circulating as the Jack or John tales of fifty years ago. Children are still singing their own songs and playing traditional games, and special ethnic and occupational groups are still speaking their own folk language. As much folklore exists now as it did then, but it is not as obvious, and it lacks the literary interest of the old songs and stories that people amused themselves with before television came along.
In the first half century of its life, members of the Texas Folklore Society had all of Texas, like a tree full of ripe peaches, ready to pick of its traditional songs and stories, traditions and beliefs. They harvested with enthusiasm and thoroughness, and they saved for our present generation the best that was passing informally among their generations. The Society is pleased to remind readers of our state's and our families' past, our roots and our beginnings. This is
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