Legendary Ladies of Texas
by Francis Edward Abernethy and Texas Foundation for Women's Resources.
University of North Texas Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-929398-75-4
Library of Congress Classification GR1.T4 no. 43, 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 390
TOC
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Abernethy, Francis Edward
- Introduction/Women in Texas History and Legend
- Rogers, Mary Beth
- Early Days
- Maria de Agreda: The Lady in Blue
- Abernethy, Francis Edward
- Angelina
- Corbin, Daine H.
- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas
- Turner, Martha Anne
- The Weeping Woman: La Llorona
- West, Johan O.
- Settlers
- Belle Starr: The Bandit Queen of Dallas
- Winegarten, Ruthe
- The Ghost of Chipita: The Crying Woman of San Patricio
- Underwood, Marylyn
- The Capitol's Lady:
- Bateman, Audray
- Two Sixshooters and a Sunbonnet: The Story of Sally Skull
- Kilgore, Dan
- Sophia Porter: Texas' Own Scarlett O'Hara
- Maguire, Jack
- Elise Waerenskjold: A Modern on the Prairie
- Smith, Sherry A.
- Texas Gets Culture
- Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris
- Palmer, Pamela Lynn
- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First Lady of Sculpture
- Nye, Mary E.
- Mollie Bailey: Circus Entrepreneur
- Hartzog, Martha
- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton Sanctificationists
- Werden, Frieda
- Aunt Dicy: Legendary Black Lady
- Byrd, James W.
- El Paso Madams
- Frost, H. Gordon
- Early 20th Century
- Pardon Me, Governor Ferguson
- Paulissen, Maisie
- “Tell Them I Don't Smoke Cigars”: The Story of Bonnie Parker
- Phillips, John Neal
- Gorzell, André L.
- Glamor Girl Called Electra
- Tolbert, Frank X.
- The Babe
- Knief, Mary Kay
- Modern Times
- Janis and the Austin Scene
- Alexander, Stanley G.
- Legends in Their Own Time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
- Lee, James Ward
- Honky Tonk Angels
- McGinity, Sue Simmons
- Woman as Victim in Modern Folklore
- Carpenter, Ann
- Mrs. Bailey and the Bears
- Hewett, Margaret L.
- Contributors
- Illustration credits
- Index
See other titles from University of North Texas Press