Texas Folklore: Read all about it! Features and Fillers Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore by Edited by Jim Harris “Not since the work of the illustrious folklorist B. A. Botkin has another folklorist revealed such sensibility and insight—and had the horse sense to bring such a unique ‘treasury’ together.” —Robert F. Gish

This is a book about the folk as journalists write about them.

Folklorist Jim Harris discovered through writing his own column that newspaper readers were hungry for articles about their past.

Any observant reader of newspapers will find examples of traditional life being reported and analyzed in the papers, be they large circulation dailies in metropolitan areas or small papers in rural and isolated regions. This collection includes: “Dusting Out,” F. E. Abernethy; “Hallie Stillwell Will Live on in Memory,” Kent Biffle; “Gold Diggers,” Patrick Dearen; “El Ojo and Other Folk Beliefs,” Joe Graham; “The Ghosts of Bill Longley,” A. C. Greene; “Cow Chip Tea,” Haywood Hygh; “Orient Hotel Saw Good Times and Bad,” Elmer Kelton; “Weather Lore Isn’t All Wet,” Stanley Marcus; “Dyin’ Easy,” Joyce Roach; “Tales of a Rural School Teacher,” Lou Rodenberger; “Chicken-fried Steak Tour Through Texas,” Alan Soloman; “A Legend Runs through It: The Pecos River,” Bryan Woolley; “The Weeping Woman,” John O. West; “Bad Roosters,” Henry Wolff, Jr.

Born in Dallas, JIM HARRIS has taught in colleges in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. He has published poetry, fiction, and essays and has been a newspaper columnist for five years. Named a New Mexico Eminent Scholar, he teaches at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, New Mexico.

Texas Folklore Society Publications #LVI

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Features and Fillers
ISBN 1-57441-074-1 cloth $29.95

LC 99-16387. 6x9. 233 pp. 20 b&w photos. Index.
Journalism. Texan. Folklore.

Publication Date: October 1999.

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