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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society Number XV
Edited by J. Frank Dobie Mody C. Boatright Harry H. Ransom
Copyright 1939 by Texas Folklore Society All rights reserved
Facsimile Edition 1966 Second Printing 1980
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Dobie, James Frank, 1888-1964, ed. In the shadow of history.
Reprint of the 1966 ed. published by Folklore Associates, Hatboro, Pa., which was issued as Publication no. 15 of the Texas Folklore Society. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. LegendsTexas. 2. LegendsSouthwest, New. 3. FolkloreTexas. 4. FolkloreSouthwest, New. 5. Alamo Siege, 1836. I. Boatright, Mody Coggin, 1896-1970, joint ed. II. Ransom, Harry Huntt, 1908-1976, joint ed. III. Title. IV. Series: Texas Folklore Society. Publications; no. 15. [GR110.T5D583 1980] 398.2'09764 80-21632 ISBN 0-87074-173-X
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Preface to the Reprint Edition
Every folklorist is aware of the interaction between historical events and popular imagination. Whether or not Travis actually drew the line at the Alamo and invited all who would die with him to cross over, this line, says J. Frank Dobie, "is a Grand Canyon cut into the bedrock of human emotions and heroical impulses." It is futile for historians to discount Zuber's account of Rose's story, for "what makes history, whether authenticated or legendary, live is that part of it that appeals to the imagination." And Dobie cared for what is living. He often said that an anecdote of doubtful historicity might reveal more about a man or a people than a bookful of facts.
Dobie had a lifelong interest in the roadrunner or paisano, which he had known since childhood. He made the paisano the emblem of the Texas Folklore Society and also his personal sign. His stationery carried the silhouette of a paisano, and there were carved and painted paisanos of wood and clay in his study. The long article on the paisano that appears in this book has been reprinted in ornithological journals. Dobie divides it into two parts, one for facts and the other for folklore. The popular belief that paisanos surround sleeping rattlesnakes with a corral of thorns increases our interest in the bird, whether or not it is true. It is not merely the facts, says Dobie, but the supposed facts that arouse interest.
To make up IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY Dobie obtained contributions from several friends and students of his. Tsanoff and Arrowood were teachers at Rice and Texas. Mrs. Kupper, Edward Rohrbough, and Dan Storm studied under
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Dobie; Mrs. Kupper's thesis on her sheepman uncle was later published by the University of Texas Press. Ruth Dodson was a ranch neighbor of Dobie's in the brush country; her collection of stories about the great Texas curandero Don Pedrito Jaramillo, in her translation from her own Spanish original, formed a large part of the Society's volume for 1951. The article by her on the preparation and cooking of tortillas makes a difficult subject perfectly clear.
IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY contains too many good things to remain out of print any longer.
WILSON M. HUDSON SECRETARY-EDITOR TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY AUSTIN, TEXAS MAY 31, 1966
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