Happy Hunting Ground / edited by J. Frank Dobie. - 1 online resource: illustrations ; - Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 4 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Reprint of the 1964 facsimile ed., published by Southern Methodist University Press.

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Annotation This 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; Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill. Includes "When the Woods Were Burnt," by L.W. Payne, Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society. Book jacket.

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Folklore--Texas.
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