Tales from the Big Thicket

by Abernethy, Francis Edward

• ISBN13: 9781574411423
• ISBN10: 157441142X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

The secretive beauty and mystery of the Big Thicket of East Texas would inevitably inspire tales -- and the pioneers who came to terms with this land were an individualistic and legend-creating lot. In Tales from the Big Thicket, Francis E. Abernethy presents a collection of stories about the Big Thicket and its people. The reader will find herein the history and folklore of the area, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a Civil War episode involving a search for hidden Jayhawkers, a travel account from the nineteenth century, and a history of one of the region's legendary families, the Hooks.

Table of Contents

Preface to North Texas Edition	vii
The Big Thicket: An Introduction	3	(13)
Francis E. Abernethy
A Sketch of the Geology and Soils of the Big Thicket	16	(6)
Saul Aronow
Folklore in the Big Thicket	22	(11)
Archer Fullingim
Tales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians	33	(25)
Howard N. Martin
Settling the Old Poplar-Tree Place	58	(11)
Vinson Allen Collins
Grandma Harrison: A Day at Drew's Landing	69	(6)
Ethel Osborn Hill
The Battle at Bad Luck Creek	75	(18)
Dean Tevis
Buckshot and Blue Whistler: An Interview with Frank Herrington	93	(14)
Frances Pitts Norvell
Camp Big Thicket: Life in the Piney Woods, 1887	107	(7)
John A. Caplen
We Trailed Them through the Marshes	114	(9)
Solomon Alexander Wright
Texas Bear Hunt, 1906	123	(14)
L. L. Kiene
Boom-Town Tales	137	(18)
Alice Cashen
Tales from Uncle Owen	155	(14)
Lois Williams Parker
Sour Lake: Spa of the Big Thicket	169	(12)
Ruth Garrison Scurlock
A Family Full of Legends	181	(18)
Ellen Walker Rienstra
Big Thicket Balladry	199	(16)
William A. Owens
From Moss Hill	215	(12)
Margaret L. Hewett
The Saratoga Light	227	(8)
Francis E. Abernethy
Index	235