Contents
Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt
Part I. On the Job: Legends and Language in Occupational Lore
Jerry Young - “Recalling a Texas Legend: Samuel Thomas ‘Booger Red’ Privett”
Courtney Elliott - “The Legacy of Bill Pickett, The Dusky Demon”
Len Ainsworth - “Day Work Cowboys in the Depression Era”
Robert J. (Jack) Duncan - “Red Overton, Somervell County Cedar-Chopper"
Chuck Parsons - “Folklore of Gunfighter John Wesley Hardin: Myths, Truths, and Half-Truths”
Scott Hill Bumgardner - “Houston Cop Talk”
Jerry B. Lincecum - “Jury Selection the Old-Fashioned Way”
II. A Sampling of Texas Cultures: From Bikers to Knanaya Catholics to Tejana Culture
Veronica Pozo - “The Texas Biker Sub-Culture and the Ride of My Life”
Jenson Erapuram - “Texan Knanaya Catholics and Their Wedding Customs”
Sue M. Friday - “Hemphill: Revisiting Small-Town Texas”
Alex LaRotta - “Música Tejana Recording Pioneers”
Lucy Fischer-West - “‘But Miss, My Family Doesn’t Have a Saga!’”
III. Urban Legends, Ghost Stories and Towns, and Searching for Lost Treasure
Gretchen Kay Lutz - “Living an Urban Legend: Galveston Ball in the Early 1970s”
Marissa Gardner - “The Truth versus the Legend of the Interstate 45 Serial Killer”
Francis Edward Abernethy - “Ghost Towns of the Big Thicket”
Stephanie Mateum - “The Ghost Lights of Marfa”
Jennifer Curtis - “Beyond Texas Folklore: The Woman in Blue”
Lee Haile - “There’s Gold in Them There Hills—or, Silver at Least”
Winston Sosebee - “Ben Sublett’s Gold”
IV. “Just for Fun” Lore
L. Patrick Hughes - “Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty: Fishing with Bubba”
Pat Parsons - “Texas Country Churches”
Mildred B. Sentell“ - Texas Weddings: Rattles on the Garter and ‘Barbwire’ in the Flowers”
Sheila Morris - “Sally and Chance: An Unusual Love Story”
Charles Williams - “They’re Still Singin’ and Sayin’ on the Range: Cowboy Culture Enters the 21st Century”
Contributors’ Vitas
Index
