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Legends of Texas edited by J. F. Dobie |
This Volume III of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society has been the standard work on the subject. Included are fascinating folk narratives of buried treasure and lost mines; legends of the supernatural; legends of lovers; pirates and pirate treasure in legend; legendary origins of Texas flowers, names, and streams. Over a hundred legends are included as they were recorded by more than 25 folklore collectors from every part of Texas.
"The assembling of the legends of my own state has been with me no light matter, though it has been a joyful business. . . . The chief source of legend in a virgin field of folklore like that of Texas is the folk themselves; that field is not likely to be exhausted soon."
—J. Frank Dobie, from the Preface
Legends of Texas
+ ISBN 1-57441-093-8 paper $21.95s
Folklore #3. 296 pp. Illus. Maps.
Publication Date: 2000.
