Cowboys, cops, killers, and ghosts : legends and lore in Texas /
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Imprint: | Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2013] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; LXIX Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 69. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304387 |
Table of Contents:
- On the job: legends and language in occupational lore. Recalling a Texas legend: Samuel Thomas 'Booger Red' Privett / Jerry Young
- The legacy of Bill Pickett, the Dusky Demon / Courtney Elliott
- Day work cowboys in the Depression era / Len Ainsworth
- Red Overton, Somervell County cedar chopper / Robert J. (Jack) Duncan
- Folklore of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin: myths, truths, and half-truths / Chuck Parsons
- Houston cop talk / Scott Hill Bumgardner
- Jury selection the old-fashioned way / Jerry B. Lincecum
- A sampling of Texas cultures: from bikers to Knanaya Catholics to Tejana culture: The Texas biker sub-culture and the ride of my life / Veronica Pozo
- Texas Knanaya Catholics and their wedding customs / Jenson Erapuram
- Hemphill: revisiting small-town Texas / Sue M. Friday
- Musica Tejana recording pioneers / Alex LaRotta
- "But, Miss, my family doesn't have a saga!" / Lucy Fischer-West
- Urban legends, ghost stories and towns, and searching for lost treasure. Living an urban legend: Galveston ball in the early 1970s / Gretchen Kay Lutz
- The truth versus the legend of the Interstate 45 Serial Killer / Marissa Gardner
- Ghost towns of the Big Thicket / Francis Edward Abernethy
- The ghost lights of Marfa / Stephanie Mateum
- Beyond Texas folklore: the Woman in Blue / Jennifer Curtis
- "There's gold in them there hills; or, silver at least" / Lee Haile
- Ben Sublett's gold / Winston Sosebee
- "Just for fun" lore. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty: fishing with Bubba / L. Patrick Hughes
- Texas Country churches / Pat Parsons
- Texas weddings: rattles on the garter and 'barb' wire in the flowers / Mildred B. Sentell
- Sally and Chance: an unusual love story / Sheila Morris
- They're still singin' and sayin' on the range: cowboy culture enters the 21st century / Charles Williams
- Contributors' vitas
- Index.