Legendary ladies of Texas /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1994. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 43 Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 43. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12868100 |
Table of Contents:
- Early days. Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue
- Angelina
- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas
- The weeping woman: La Llorona
- Settlers. Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas
- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio
- The capitol's lady
- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull
- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara
- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie
- Texas gets culture. Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris
- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture
- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur
- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists
- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady
- El Paso madams
- Early 20th century. Pardon me, Governor Ferguson
- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker
- Glamor girl called Electra
- The babe
- Modern times. Janis and the Austin scene
- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
- Honky tonk angels
- Woman as victim in modern folklore
- Mrs. Bailey and the Bears.