Bookcover: Happy Hunting Ground

Happy Hunting Ground

vol. 4: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society

J. Frank Dobie — editor.

January, 1925

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8 illus.

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This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in

  1. 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; and Indian pictographs near Lange’s Mill. It also includes “When the Woods Were Burnt,” by L. W. Payne, Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society.

Original publication date: 1925; Reprinted 1964.

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