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A heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One
    • Corn Dodgers and San Jacinto Corn
    • The Wild Woman of the Navidad
    • The Dream That Saved Wilbarger
    • Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts
    • Jim Bowie's Knife
    • The Robinhooding of Sam Bass
  • Part Two
    • Northers, Drouths and Sandstorms
    • Frozen Inside a Buffalo Hide
    • The Cold-Nosed Hounds
    • Honey in the Rock
  • Part Three
    • The Texas Bluebonnet
    • The Headless Horseman of the Mustangs
    • A Ranch on the Nueces Desperate Rides
    • The Planter Who Gambled Away His Bride
  • Part Four
    • The Panther's Scream
    • Bears Are Intelligent People
    • Old Bill, Confederate Ally
  • Part Five
    • Colonel Abercrombie's Mole
    • The Green Powder Keg In a Drouth Crack
    • The Stranger of Sabine Pass
    • Longworth's Vicey-versey Map
    • Guarded by Rattlesnakes
    • The Apache Secret of the Guadalupes
    • O. Henry's Treasure Hunt
    • Where Did Sam McFarland Cross the Colorado?
    • The Mezcla Man
  • Notes and Credits
  • Index

Tales of OldTime Texas

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    A Paperback / softback by J. Frank Dobie

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      Book details

      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 1 September 1984
      ISBN-13 9780292780699
      978-0292780699
      ISBN-10 0292780699
      Also in:
      Folklore studies / Study of myth

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
      • Part One
        • Corn Dodgers and San Jacinto Corn
        • The Wild Woman of the Navidad
        • The Dream That Saved Wilbarger
        • Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts
        • Jim Bowie's Knife
        • The Robinhooding of Sam Bass
      • Part Two
        • Northers, Drouths and Sandstorms
        • Frozen Inside a Buffalo Hide
        • The Cold-Nosed Hounds
        • Honey in the Rock
      • Part Three
        • The Texas Bluebonnet
        • The Headless Horseman of the Mustangs
        • A Ranch on the Nueces Desperate Rides
        • The Planter Who Gambled Away His Bride
      • Part Four
        • The Panther's Scream
        • Bears Are Intelligent People
        • Old Bill, Confederate Ally
      • Part Five
        • Colonel Abercrombie's Mole
        • The Green Powder Keg In a Drouth Crack
        • The Stranger of Sabine Pass
        • Longworth's Vicey-versey Map
        • Guarded by Rattlesnakes
        • The Apache Secret of the Guadalupes
        • O. Henry's Treasure Hunt
        • Where Did Sam McFarland Cross the Colorado?
        • The Mezcla Man
      • Notes and Credits
      • Index

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