I. “Legendary” Texans
Contents
Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt
Jerry Young "Jacob Brodbeck: The First Man to Fly"
Jo Virgil Hugh "Hackberry Slim" Johnson, II
Barbara Finlay "The Grave of the Lonesome Cowboy: Mitchell Crossing Ranch, McCulloch County, Texas"
Charlie T. McCormick "Georgianna Knowles: Borderland Bullfighter"
Vicky J. Rose "Sam Houston Was Not Born in Texas, and Other Disturbing Facts"
Mariann Fisk Laughlin "Did David Crockett Really Stop in Bastrop? Some Facts and Folklore"
Paul H. Carlson "Myth, Folklore, and Misconception in the 1860 Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker"
Michael Collins "The Legend of Old Casuse and His Paint Horse Gallows"
Erin Marissa Russell and Matt Gibson "The Hermit: A Study of the Legend Central to Cascade Caverns in Boerne, Texas"
Adam Cree "A British Adventure in the Year of the Texas Centennial"
James Mody Bridges "The Family Saga of Mody Boatright"
Meredith E. Abarca and Lucy Fischer-West "The Legacy of John O. West: Mexican-American Folklore from the 20th to the 21st Century"
II. Texas Folk Song and Dance
Karen Reinartz Haile "Here a Ditty, There a Ditty, Everywhere a Little Ditty"
Carol Bolland "Come On-A My House: A Look at the House and Ranch Dances of Texas"
Jean Granberry Schnitz "Yodels, Cattle Calls, and Other Melodious Sounds"
Margaret A. Cox "Boosting the Eden Bulldogs"
Ruth Massingill, Mel Strait, and Emily Jones "Refrain from Prison: How the Texas Prison Music Program Connected the Incarcerated and The Free "
III. Life in
Texas—As We
Remember It
Robert J. (Jack) Duncan "Our Pre-Teen Silver Screen Dreams and Pied-Piper Melton Barker, an Itinerant Filmmaker"
W. Floyd Elliott "Visiting in the 1930s"
Lee Haile "Whiskey Stills in the Hills"
Charles Williams "Cooking with Gas: The Quiet Revolution"
Charles B. Martin "Homestead Heritage Farms: A Step Back in Time in Central Texas"
John Meadows "Old Cars Driving around Austin: Boyhood Adventures behind the Wheel"
Elizabeth Harris Duncan "Before I Was Five"
Contributors' Vitas
Index
