The Bounty of Texas (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society): 49 (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929398149 ISBN 13: 9780929398143

Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend of West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this Texas Folklore Society Publication includes a heretofore unpublished outdoors sketch by J. Frank Dobie on deer hunting and a piece by Bertha McKee Dobie on Frank's interest in grasses. Elmer Kelton, Joyce Roach, and Robert Flynn take a humorous look at their work and hometowns, and Kenneth Davis tells tales of souls departing their bodies. There are essays on the bounty of the tables of the earlier settlers, and the state's ethnic heritages through the German Volksfest in Brenham. The folk-song scholarship of Dorothy Scarborough, the art of Ben Mead, a look at prison language, and much more are included in this bountiful book.

About this title

About the Author:

FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY was Regents Professor Emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, the executive secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society, the curator of exhibits for the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. In addition to editing twenty-one Texas Folklore Society publications, he wrote Singin' Texas, Legends of Texas' Heroic Age, and all three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society history, published by the University of North Texas Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0929398149
• ISBN 13: 9780929398143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232