Gathers legends that relate the life, lore, and history of Texas, including legends of lost mines and buried treasure

Book by Dobie, J. Frank

Product Description: Amy, Wendy, and Beth, the 1980 recipient of the New York Academy of Sciences Edward Sapir Award, is a lively in-depth study of how three young children from an urban working-class community learned language under everyday conditions...read more

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The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter—the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected everything he could find about him. Lilly was born in Alabama in 1856, followed the bear and the panther westward through Mississippi and Louisiana to Texas, leaving a trail of stories about his prowess as a hunter and his goodness as a man. He was at one time "chief huntsman" to Teddy Roosevelt, hunted in Texas and Mexico, and came to be known as the master sign reader of the Rockies. Here are all the stories Ben Lilly told and a great many more Frank Dobie heard about him, put together in a fresh and fascinating contribution to American folklore.

Product Description: Book by Dobie, J. Frank, Hanna, Boyd

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

Product Description: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. African-American folklorist J. Mason Brewer starts this volume with “Juneteenth,” followed by Martha Emmons’ “Dyin’ Easy.” Mexican-American folklore is explored in witch tales, legends, and folk-curing from Ruth Laughlin Barker, Ruth Dodson, and Jovita Gonzalez...read more

Product Description: Once again, through a boy's eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road...read more