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Folk Travelers Ballads, Tales, and Talk edited by Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, and Allen Maxwell |
"Any good story travels and keeps on traveling. As it travels, it both adds and loses, but keeps its shape. If it brings out the characteristic of some individual, illustrating a similar characteristic in him, it will before long find itself attached to another individual, illustrating a similar characteristic in him. Its point, like that of a proverb, a poem, or a text from the Bible, has universal applicability. . . . After a potent traveler becomes familiar to nearly everybody it will stop for a while and rest, but it will not die. It will set out again when there are fresh hearers. The test of a story is not whether it is old, but whether it has vitality enough to keep from wearing out." —J. Frank Dobie, from "The Traveling Anecdote"
This twenty-fifth publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains articles on the traveling anecdote by J. Frank Dobie; folklore in natural history by Roy Bedichek; names of western wild animals by George Hendricks; Bonny Barbara Allen by Joseph Hendren; Aunt Cordie's Ax and other motifs in oil by Mody Boatright; the western ballad and the Russian ballada by Robert Stephenson; the love tragedy in Texas-Mexican balladry by Américo Paredes; musical chants by Elizabeth Hurley; folkways on Bear Creek by E. J. Rissmann; Emerson and the language of the folk by John Q. Anderson; tales of Neiman-Marcus by James Howard; origins of Uvalde County cattle brands by Orlan Sawey; Who's Got My Golden Arm ghost story by Wilson Hudson; black and white magic on the Texas-Mexican border by Gabriel Córdova; weather talk from the Cap Rock by Everett Gillis; The Devil in the Big Bend by Elton Miles; Wham, Jam, Jenny-Mo-Wham by Peggy Hendricks; Richard's tales by Richard Smith.
Folk Travelers
ISBN 0-87074-014-8. cloth $29.95s
+ ISBN 0-87074 -109-8. paper $20.95s
LC 53-12578. Folklore #25. 261 pp. Illus. Index.
Publication Date: 2000.
