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Folk Travelers : Ballads, Tales, and Talk Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 25
author
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Boatright, Mody Coggin; Hudson, Wilson Mathis; Allen, Maxwell W.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574411098
print isbn13
:
9781574411096
ebook isbn13
:
9780585253657
language
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English
subject
Folklore--Texas.
publication date
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2000
lcc
:
GR1.T4 2000eb
ddc
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398
subject
:
Folklore--Texas.
Page ii
Folk Travelers
Ballads, Tales, and Talk
Edited by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, Allen Maxwell
Publications of The Texas Folklore Society Number XXV
Page iii
Copyright 2000 by The Texas Folklore Society
All rights Reserved
Copyright 1953 by The Texas Folklore Society Southern Methodist University Press
Printed in the United States of America
Permissions: University of North Texas Press P. O. Box 311336 Denton, Texas 76203 (940) 565-2142 FAX (940) 565-4590
ISBN 1-57441-109-8
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Contents
The Traveling Anecdote
J. Frank Dobie
1
Folklore in Natural History
Roy Bedichek
18
The Names of Western Wild Animals
George D. Hendricks
40
Bonny Barbara Allen
Joseph W. Hendren
47
Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other Motifs in Oil
Mody C. Boatright
75
The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada
Robert C. Stephenson
86
Signature in Ballad and Story
Robert C. Stephenson
7
The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry.
Amrico Paredes
110
Come Buy, Come Buy
Elizabeth Hurley
115
Folkways on Bear Creek
E. J. Rissmann
139
Emerson and the Language of the Folk
John Q. Anderson
152
Tales of Neiman-Marcus
James Howard
160
Origins of Uvalde County Cattle Brands
Orlan L. Sawey
171
I Want My Golden Arm
Wilson M. Hudson
183
Page v
Black and White Magic on the Texas-Mexican Border
Gabriel Crdova
195
Weather Talk from the Cap Rock
Everett A. Gillis
200
The Devil in the Big Bend
Elton R. Miles
205
Wham, Jam, Jenny-Mo-Wham
Peggy Hendricks
217
Richard's Tales
Richard Smith
220
Contributors
254
Index
259
Page 1
The Traveling Anecdote
J. Frank Dobie
When two jet planes become a commonplace in family garages over the earth, hardly a traveler even then will be as much at home in as many lands of varying languages and latitudes as many tales and anecdotes have been for centuries. Any good story travels and keeps on traveling. As it travels, it both adds and loses, but keeps its shape. If it brings out the characteristic of some individual, it will before long find itself attached to another individual, illustrating a similar characteristic in him. Its point, like that of a proverb, a poem, or a text from the Bible, has universal applicability. Many a lifeless and pointless story gets into print, but that is no indication of its potency. Unless it have potency it cannot travel. After a potent traveler becomes familiar to nearly everybody it will stop for a while and rest, but it will not die. It will set out again when there are fresh hearers. The test of a story is not whether it is old, but whether it has vitality enough to keep from wearing out. Eddie Foy said he'd stick to the jokes proven by time and let somebody else test out the new ones.
A quarter of a century or more ago a friend of mine named Gates Thomas, whose people settled in Texas soon after Texas became a republic, who was a professor of English in a college and who collected folklore and knew what folklore is, told me a family story that for more than a hundred years has been considered historical.
Colonel Mason Thomas, grandfather to Gates Thomas, was a great admirer of Sam Houston. He had a plantation down the Colorado River (for Texas has its own Colorado) and was a member of the Texas Congress. One election year Sam Houston sent word that he would be at the Thomas plantation on a certain date. He was running for the presidency of the republic and had three opponents.
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