Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is it folklore or history? : the answer may be important / Tom Crum -- The roadrunner in fact and folk-lore / J. Frank Dobie -- Cavalry traditions on the Texas frontier / James T. Matthews -- Gathering at Bill's : maintaining the folklore of Live Oak County / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- The cooking extravaganza : sequel to "Gathering at Bill's" / Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell -- Growing up female in Texas : the importance of beauty pageants in Texas communities / Kelly M. Mosel-Talavera -- Madame Blackley : seer of south Texas / Henry Wolff, Jr -- La Llorona's ancestry : crossing cultural boundaries / Gloria Duarte -- Burning brightly : the Easter fires of maternal necessity / Donna Melitio -- Five stands off bottom / Lew Schnitz -- Dispatches from the electronic front lines / Charles Williams -- A rural mail carrier / Milt McAfee (as told by Ben Mead) -- The trials and tribulations of a dirt road country doctor / Mildred Boren Sentell -- Joe Fitzgerald, nurseryman and philosopher / Mary Joe (Fitzgerald) Clendenin -- Water woes and water ways : tales of Texas engineer John B. Hawley / Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore -- The long arm of the law / Martha Emmons -- The police language : the lore of law enforcement communication in west Texas / Kenneth L. Untiedt -- Cactus Jack Garner as folk hero : vice-president of the United States 1933-1940 / Lora B. Garrison -- And lo to Vernon came : the con man, the bootlegger man, and the music man / William N. Stokes, Jr -- Horsetrading and ethics / J. Rhett Rushing -- The lore of retirement and extended care facilities / Kenneth W. Davis -- Folksy, but devout, bookkeeping / George Wilmeth Ewing -- Mi fronteridad in the classroom : the power of writing and sharing stories / Meredith E. Abarca.

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