Happy Hunting Ground

by Dobie, J. Frank

• ISBN13: 9781574410945
• ISBN10: 1574410946
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

This is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925. Included are articles on Mexican popular ballad; Spanish songs of New Mexico; versos of the Texas vaqueros; reptile myths; the cowboy dance of the northwest; superstitions of the Northern Seas; oil field diction; folk tales of the Chibcha nation; the human hand in primitive art; Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill. Includes "When the Woods Were Burnt," by L. W. Payne, Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Reprint Edition	p. 1
A Preface With a Proposal	p. 3
Forward Remarks by the Editor	p. 7
A Mexican Popular Ballad (With Music)	p. 10
Spanish Songs of New Mexico (With Music)	p. 18
Versos of the Texas Vaqueros (With Music)	p. 30
Reptile Myths in Northwestern Louisiana	p. 44
The Cowboy Dance of the Northwest	p. 53
Superstitions of the Northern Seas	p. 59
Oil Field Diction	p. 64
Some Folk-Tales of the Chibcha Nation	p. 68
The Human Hand in Primitive Art (Illustrated)	p. 80
Indian Pictographs Near Lange's Mill, Gillespie County (Illustrated)	p. 103
Contributors	p. 115
Proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society	p. 117
List of Members	p. 119
Index	p. 127
When the Woods Were Burnt
In Memory of Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr.	p. 5
I Was Here When the Woods Were Burnt	p. 7
Beginnings of the Texas Folklore Society	p. 17
First Published Pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society (Facsimile)	p. 23
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