Legendary Ladies of Texas /  
edited by Francis Edward Abernethy. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - 1 online resource:   illustrations ; 
 - Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;  no. 43 .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> "Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780929398754 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Biography.--Texas<br/>Women.<br/>Legends.<br/>Women--Folklore.--Texas<br/>Women--Texas--Biography.<br/>Women--History.--Texas<br/>Legends--Texas.<br/>Women--Texas--Folklore.<br/>Women--Texas--Biography.<br/>Women--History.--Texas
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States, Texas--History.<br/>United States, Texas--Biography.<br/>Texas.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Folklore.<br/>Biographies.<br/>Electronic books.