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Product Description: A collection of Texas folk lore and short stories by J. Frank Dobie, an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...read more

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9780870740398 | Univ of North Texas Pr, June 1, 1969, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

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9781496006462 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 20, 2014, cover price $6.89 | About this edition: A collection of Texas folk lore and short stories by J.
9781434680440 | Bibliobazaar, January 31, 2008, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434680457 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, January 31, 2008), cover price $20.75

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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9781404364288 | Indypublish.Com, May 1, 2003, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781404305649 | Indypublish.Com, May 1, 2002, cover price $23.99

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9781437894325 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $35.99
9781406825589 | Echo Library, December 31, 2007, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: First published in 1942.
9781426410772 | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $21.75 | About this edition: "Yet the time is not likely to come when a human being will not be better adapted to his environments by knowing their nature…"
9781404364295 | Indypublish.Com, May 1, 2003, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781404305656 | Indypublish.Com, May 1, 2002, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
By J. Frank Dobie (editor)

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9781436675451 | Reprint edition (Kessinger Pub Co, June 13, 2008), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780870741562 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Some of the best-known tales of booty hidden in Texas are included, as are eerie stories and the origins of Texas flowers, names, and streams.

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9781574410938 | Univ of North Texas Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has been the standard work on the subject.

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Product Description: In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulating the complex and often contentious relationship between coyotes and humans. Based on his own life experiences in Texas and twenty-five years of research, Dobie forges a sympathetic and nuanced picture of the coyote prefiguring later environmental and conservation movements...read more

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9780785813750 | Book Sales, March 1, 2002, cover price $9.99

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9780803266599 | New edition (Bison Books, May 31, 2006), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In The Voice of the Coyote, J.
9780803250505, titled "Voice of the Coyote" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 1961, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 'Deftly blends the natural history of the coyote with anecdote, tall tales and legend gathered from the author's wide reading and personal experience in his native region' - "New York Times Book Review".

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Product Description: J. Frank Dobie’s history of the “mustang”—from the Spanish mesteña, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers—tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West.

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9780785811312 | Book Sales, August 1, 1999, cover price $9.99

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9780803266506 | Bison Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: J.
9780292750814 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: J.

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Product Description: 1930. From In the Beginning: These tales are not creations of mine. They belong to the soil and to the people of the soil. Like all things that belong, they have their roots deep in the place of their being, deep too in the past. They are an outgrowth; they embody the geniuses of divergent races and peoples who even while fiercely opposing each other blended their traditions...read more

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9781417901951 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 11, 2005, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: 1930.
9780292710528, titled "Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest" | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: 1929. Partly from the reminiscences of John Young. Contents: The Making of a Vaquero; The Mossy Horns; For Their Hides and Tallow; The Razorbacks; The Bloody Border; If Not Law-Then Order; Up the Chisholm Trail; Bringing in the Strays; Dodging Comanches and Hunting Water; Establishing a Ranch on the Plains; From Hell to Breakfast; Billy the Kid Interpreted; Many Trails; When the Brush Popped; Brush Country; The Big Steal and the Breakup; The Brasaderos; Mustangs; The Bandana and Other Belongings; The Man With the Iron Hand; and Trans-Pecos...read more

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9781417912070 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: 1929.
9780292787049, titled "Vaquero of the Brush Country" | Reissue edition (Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1981), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items, like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic, anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the philosophy of the folk...read more

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9780870740466 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, January 1, 1965, cover price $16.95

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9781574410884 | Univ of North Texas Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J.

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This Texas Folklore Society Publication is divided into two volumes of rich, Texan folklore. The first volume contains eight folk tales, varying from “Lore of the Llano Estacado” to “Myths of the Tejas Indians.” The second volume centers around the cowboy way of life and cowboy songs, such as “Songs the Cowboys Sing” and “Song of the Open Range.” (view table of contents)
By J. Frank Dobie (editor)

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9780870740442, titled "Texas and Southwestern Lore" | Reprint edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1967), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This Texas Folklore Society Publication is divided into two volumes of rich, Texan folklore.

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9781574411041, titled "Texas and Southwestern Lore" | Texas A & M Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Scientific facts concerning rattlesnakes can be found in many places from encyclopedias to the works of herpetologists. Dobie includes not just facts but yarns and gossip about rattlesnakes heard from people who never once looked inside a scientific book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780785813743 | Book Sales, March 1, 2002, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Scientific facts concerning rattlesnakes can be found in many places from encyclopedias to the works of herpetologists.
9780316187992 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1965, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures--rattlesnakes--their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies.

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9780292770232 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1982), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures—rattlesnakes—their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies.

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9780870740473 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Paperback:

9781574410983 | Univ of North Texas Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: Book by Dobie, J. Frank

Hardcover:

9780870741494 | 2 edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1975), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Dobie, J.

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Product Description: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society includes the play-party in Oklahoma; folklore of Texas birds; tall tales for the tenderfeet; fishback yarns from the Sulphurs; Cajun stories of Bolivar's Peninsula; Paul Bunyan; pioneer folk tales; folk anecdotes; the Texas pecan; African-American folk songs of Texas; old Nacogdoches; ghosts of Lake Jackson; how the polecat got his scent; characteristics of cowboy songs; ballads and songs of the frontier folk, and other tales...read more

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9781574410877 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society includes the play-party in Oklahoma; folklore of Texas birds; tall tales for the tenderfeet; fishback yarns from the Sulphurs; Cajun stories of Bolivar's Peninsula; Paul Bunyan; pioneer folk tales; folk anecdotes; the Texas pecan; African-American folk songs of Texas; old Nacogdoches; ghosts of Lake Jackson; how the polecat got his scent; characteristics of cowboy songs; ballads and songs of the frontier folk, and other tales.

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Product Description: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from El Paso, comedy in folk superstitions, witching for water with the Bible, pioneer folk ways, old sayings from Texas, Irish fairies in Texas, Alabama Indian music, and tales from the Alabamas...read more

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9780870741647 | Reissue edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, December 1, 1984), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tan cloth binding.

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9781574410976 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

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Product Description: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925. Included are articles on Mexican popular ballad; Spanish songs of New Mexico; versos of the Texas vaqueros; reptile myths; the cowboy dance of the northwest; superstitions of the Northern Seas; oil field diction; folk tales of the Chibcha nation; the human hand in primitive art; and Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill...read more

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9781574410945 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925.

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Hardcover:

9780870741500 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $12.95

Paperback:

9781574410952 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

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9780870740480 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1967, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

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9781574410891 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.

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Product Description: Contributing Authors Include Riley Aiken, Dan Storm, Sarah McKellar, And Others. Texas Folklore Society Publications, Number 12.
By J. Frank Dobie (editor)

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9780870740411 | Univ of North Texas Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The cream of a large collection of Mexican lore has been accumulated over many years, partly through contributions by lovers of the gente all over the Southwest and partly through editor J.

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9781574410969 | Univ of North Texas Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Contributing Authors Include Riley Aiken, Dan Storm, Sarah McKellar, And Others.

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Product Description: The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780785811305, titled "The Longhorns" | Book Sales, August 1, 1999, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known.
9780316187961 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1941, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A vivid account of the Texas cattle and their role in Western history

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9780292746275 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1980), cover price $16.95

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Presents a collection of twenty-eight stories and tales describing the characters, history, and folklore of the Lone Star State. (view table of contents)

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9780785811329 | Book Sales, August 1, 1999, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Presents a collection of twenty-eight stories and tales describing the characters, history, and folklore of the Lone Star State.
9780316188012 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 1955, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Big Foot Wallace, Jim Bowie, Colonel Abercrombie and others come to the fore in illustrated stories about the Lone Star State

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9780292780699, titled "Tales of Old Time Texas" | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $16.95

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9781565540736 | Reprint edition (Pelican Pub Co Inc, December 1, 1995), cover price $6.99

No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Edges browned slightly. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Includes B&W illustrations. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Save on shipping by ordering multiple titles. 266pp. Softcover Fine Condition Size: 6" x 9" English Text

Hardcover:

9780944383179 | High Lonesome Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $20.00

Paperback:

9780944383162, titled "Afield With J. Frank Dobie: Tales of Critters, Campfires, and the Hunting Trail" | High Lonesome Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: No markings.

Product Description: Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail...read more

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9781569560488 | Braille edition (William a Thomas Braille, December 1, 1992), cover price $35.52 | About this edition: Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves.
9780292710603 | Univ of Texas Pr, October 1, 1981, cover price $21.95

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