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title	:	The Bounty of Texas Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 49
author	:	Abernethy, Francis Edward.
publisher	:	University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0929398149
print isbn13	:	9780929398143
ebook isbn13	:	9780585224114
language	:	English
subject	Folklore--Texas, Texas--Social life and customs.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	GR1.T4 1990eb
ddc	:	398/.09764
subject	:	Folklore--Texas, Texas--Social life and customs.

Page iii The Bounty of Texas Texas Folklore Society Publication XLIX Edited by Francis Edward Abernethy

Page iv Copyright 1990 by the Texas Folklore Society All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition 1990 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: University of North Texas Press P. O. Box 13856 Denton, Texas 76203-3856 Photographs not credited are by Francis Edward Abernethy Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Bounty of Texas / edited by Francis Edward Abernethy. p. cm. (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 49) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-929398-14-9: $19.95 1. FolkloreTexas. 2. TexasSocial life and customs. I. Abernethy, Francis Edward. II. Series. GR1.T4 no. 49 [GR110.T5] 398' .09764dc20 90-12417 CIP 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. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.

Page v Contents Preface 1 The Bounty of the Woods R. A. Hill 13 Fiction Writers Are Liars and Thieves Elmer Kelton 50 A Sense of Place Joyce Gibson Roach and Robert Flynn 63 Brush Country, Vaqueros, and Hamlet's Ghost Paul Clois Stone 77 Curiosity in Deer J. Frank Dobie 87 The Pleasure Frank Dobie Took in Grass Bertha McKee Dobie 92 The Folksong Scholarship of Dorothy Scarborough Sylvia Grider 96 Ben Carlton Mead: Portrait of an Artist Robert J. Duncan 104 The Lone Ranger Rides Again Connie Ricci 115 Ollie North: Hero, Villain, or Temporary Prince? Jeri Tanner 121 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum Paul Patterson 132 Dogs and Madmen: Stories from the Sufi Tradition Tom McClellan 143 Bodies and Souls: Some Partings of the Twain Kenneth Davis 148 Glen Rose 'Shine Janet Jeffery 156 Storm Cellar Wisdom: Tall Tales from Down Under Faye Leeper 163 Good Providing, Good Eating Lera Tyler Lich 172 The German Volksfest in Brenham W.M. Von-Maszewski 180 Catheads, Coal Burners, and Cho-Cho Sticks: Folk Speech in Texas Prisons Charles Shafer 194 Contributors 219 Index 225

Page 1 Preface: In Which the Editor Discusses the Personal Legend As Part of Folklore and Sneaks in One of His Own Years ago George Lyman Kittredge said that Texas was a happy hunting ground for folklorists. It still is. The bounty of Texas consists of a state full of rich living and traditions, stretching centuries back to the Indians, through the Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglos, to all the many nationalities that moved in and then spread out through Texas and the Southwest. It was and is a land of plenty, and one can go down any road, say the Camino Real, and glean a wealth of folklore at every crossroad and filling station and barbecue stand. A folklorist can live off the bounty of Texas easy enoughand get fat. The idea of living off the bounty of the land is where this book got its title, more particularly from R. A. Hill's "The Bounty of the Woods." I do not know when I have received a paper that I enjoyed as much as Rusty Hill's reminiscences of living off the land and trapping in the Big Bend and West Texas during the late Twenties. Rusty's double first cousin, Roland Broaddus of Dallas, had a copy of Rusty's hand-written memoirs which he was kind enough to send me in typed form. And I thank Florene Hill, Rusty's wife, for letting the Society publish them. Mr. Hill lived a long and interesting life, but when it came to putting something down for posterity, that which was most vivid in his memory was two trapping seasons he spent with his buddies when he was nineteen years old. During this rich time in Rusty Hill's life he did truly live off the bounty of the woods.

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