Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales, and Talk

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A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie’s chapter on The Traveling Anecdote. Also included are Roy Bedichek on Folklore in Natural History;
The Names of Western Wild Animals, by George D. Hendricks; Bonny Barbara Allen, by Joseph W. Hendren; Aunt Cordie’s Ax and Other Motifs in Oil, by Mody C. Boatright; The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada, by Robert C. Stephenson; The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry, by Americo Paredes; Emerson and the Language of the Folk, by John Q. Anderson; Tales of Neiman-Marcus, by James Howard; The Devil in the Big Bend, by Elton Miles; and others.