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About Dobie's Texas and Southwestern Lore

Texas and Southwestern Lore is now available as a free e-book at the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.

This volume contains “Folk-Lore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero,” by Jovita González; “Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household,” by Bertha McKee Dobie; “Lore of the Llano Estacado,” by J. Evetts Haley; “Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory,” by Della I. Young; “Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields,” by Hartman Dignowity; “The Devil’s Grotto,” by Mody Boatright; “Myths of the Tejas Indians,” by Mattie Austin Hatcher; “A Note on Four Negro Words,” by Robert Adger Law.

Part II of the publication includes “Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk,” by J. Frank Dobie; “Songs the Cowboys Sing,” by John Craddock; “Song of the Open Range,” by Ina Sires; “The Texas Cowboy,” by Arbie Moore; “Cowboy Songs Again,” by J. Evetts Haley; “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,’ by Julia Beazley; “Annie Breen from Old Kaintuck,” by George E. Hastings; “Songs and Ballads—Grave and Gay,” by L. W. Payne, Jr.