Follow de Drinkin' Gourd by Frank J. Dobie, ed.

This Volume VII of Publications of the Texas Folklore Society includes the play-party in Oklahoma; folklore of Texas birds; tall tales for the tenderfeet; fishback yarns from the Sulphurs; Cajun stories of Bolivar's Peninsula; Paul Bunyan; pioneer folk tales; folk anecdotes; the Texas pecan; Negro folk songs of Texas; old Nacogdoches; ghosts of Lake Jackson; how the polecat got his scent; characteristics of cowboy songs; ballads and songs of the frontier folk, among other.

"So many people contributing to this issue is a sign of exceeding virtue. It is a sign that more and more people are becoming interested in the life that lies spread all about them—‘so various, so beautiful, so new.' The freshness of some of this life! It is doubtful if any thing more novel than H. B. Parks' ‘Follow the Drinking Gourd' has ever been printed in the realm of American folklore." —J. Frank Dobie, from the Preface

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Follow de Drinkin' Gourd
+ ISBN 1-57441-087-3. paper $16.95s

Folklore #7. 202 pp.

Publication Date: 2000.

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