Contents
Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt
I. Folk Travel in Texas
1. Jim Harris "Texans on the Road: The Folklore of Travel"
2. Archie McDonald "Traveling Texan"
3. Jerry Lincecum "Red River Bridge War"
4. Carol Hanson "Wagon Train Experience"
5. Mary Harris "Farm and Ranch Entrances in West Texas"
II. Back in the Day
F. E. Abernethy "Legends of the Trail"
Consuelo L. Samarripa "The Passage of Scotland's Four/El Pasaje de los Cuatro de Escocia"
Janet McCannon Simonds "Gone to (South) Texas"
Ellen Pearson "Fannie Marchman's Journey from Atlanta, Georgia to Jefferson, Texas"
James Burton Kelly "Walter Henry Burton's Ride-Bell County to Juarez, Mexico in 1888"
John O. West "The Galloping Gourmet; or, The Chuck Wagon Cook and His Craft"
W. C. Jameson "The Language of the Trail Drivers: An Examination of the Origin and Diffusion of an Industry-Oriented Vocabulary"
III. The Modern Era: Tales of Rails and Highways
L. Patrick Hughes "Rail Remembrances: The Train in Folk Memory and Imagination"
Jan Epton Seale "Safe in the Arms of Trainmen"
Charlie Oden "Tales of the Rails"
Newton Gaines "The Ford Epigram"
Kenneth W. Davis "Watch the Fords Go By: The Automobile Comes to Old Bell County"
Jean Granberry Schnitz "Driving Across Texas at Thirty-five Miles Per Hour"
IV. Still Movin' On, Any Way They Can
Barbara Pybas "High Flyin' Times"
Lucille Enix "Back in the Saddle Again: Riding the Chrome-moly Horse"
Paul Yeager "The Iron Butts Solstice Run"
Gretchen Lutz "The Unspoken Code of Chivalry Among Drag Racers"
Lindsay Baker "Eating Up Route 66: Foodways of Motorists Crossing the Texas Panhandle"
Charlie McCormick "There's Life Beyond the Sonic: Growing Up Cruising"
Contributors' Vitas
Index