The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574411683 ISBN 13: 9781574411683

Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2003

Synopsis

Included here are stories grouped by common topics, such as ghosts and the supernatural, feuding and fighting and death and burial. They include tales from storytellers Elmer Kelton, James Ward Lee, Robert Flynn, Archie McDonald and John Graves.

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.




Jerry Bryan Lincecum is Shoap Professor of English at Austin College and the author of Gideon Lincecum's Sword, published by UNT Press.



Frances B. Vick is a longtime member of the Texas Folklore Society. She is the former director of the University of North Texas Press, and president of the Texas State Historical Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574411683
• ISBN 13: 9781574411683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Vick Frances B.