TY - BOOK AU - Abernethy,Francis Edward ED - Texas Foundation for Women's Resources. ED - Project Muse. TI - Legendary Ladies of Texas / T2 - Publications of the Texas Folklore Society SN - 9780929398754 PY - 1994/// CY - Denton PB - University of North Texas Press KW - Women KW - Texas KW - Biography KW - fssh KW - fast KW - Legends KW - Folklore KW - History KW - United States, Texas KW - Biographies KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - "Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover; 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; Open Access N2 - A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72198/ ER -