Author: David Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942956013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jose Melendez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs."
Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas
Author: David Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942956013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jose Melendez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942956013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jose Melendez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs."
Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625857780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Discover the darker side of Texas history in this collection of chilling local lore—includes photos! Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes of the Rio Grande Valley wait sinister secrets, unnerving vestiges of the past, and wraiths of those claimed by the winding river. The spirit of a murdered student in Brownsville paces the locker room where she met her end. Tortured souls of patients lost in the Harlingen Insane Asylum refuse to be forgotten. Guests at the LaBorde Hotel in Rio Grande City report visions of the Red Lady, who was spurned by the soldier she loved and driven to suicide. In this book, David Bowles explores these and more of the most harrowing ghost stories from Fort Brown to Fort Ringgold and all the haunted hotels, chapels and ruins in between.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625857780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Discover the darker side of Texas history in this collection of chilling local lore—includes photos! Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes of the Rio Grande Valley wait sinister secrets, unnerving vestiges of the past, and wraiths of those claimed by the winding river. The spirit of a murdered student in Brownsville paces the locker room where she met her end. Tortured souls of patients lost in the Harlingen Insane Asylum refuse to be forgotten. Guests at the LaBorde Hotel in Rio Grande City report visions of the Red Lady, who was spurned by the soldier she loved and driven to suicide. In this book, David Bowles explores these and more of the most harrowing ghost stories from Fort Brown to Fort Ringgold and all the haunted hotels, chapels and ruins in between.
Both Sides of the Border
Author: Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Collection covers Remembering Our Ancestors, Folklore Tales and Memorabilia and Family Sagas from favorite storytellers like James Ward Lee, Thad Sitton, J. Frank Dobie, Jean Granberry Schnitz, and many more.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Collection covers Remembering Our Ancestors, Folklore Tales and Memorabilia and Family Sagas from favorite storytellers like James Ward Lee, Thad Sitton, J. Frank Dobie, Jean Granberry Schnitz, and many more.
Backwoods to Border
Author: Mody Coggin Boatright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
Author: Américo Paredes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
11 scholarly articles by noted authority in the field of folklore & Chicano studies; with a chronological bibliography of Paredes writings. An analytical look at Texas & Mexican social life & customs, exemplified in folk tales.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
11 scholarly articles by noted authority in the field of folklore & Chicano studies; with a chronological bibliography of Paredes writings. An analytical look at Texas & Mexican social life & customs, exemplified in folk tales.
Texas and Southwestern Lore
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This Volume Number 6 contains folklore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero; Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household; Lore of the Llano Estacado; Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory; Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields; The Devil's Grotto; Myths of the Tejas Indians; Ballads and songs of the Frontier Folk; several essays on cowboys songs, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This Volume Number 6 contains folklore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero; Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household; Lore of the Llano Estacado; Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory; Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields; The Devil's Grotto; Myths of the Tejas Indians; Ballads and songs of the Frontier Folk; several essays on cowboys songs, etc.
Legends of Texas
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting (1923) of the Texas folk-lore societyP : p. [263]-268. Bibliography of Texas legends.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting (1923) of the Texas folk-lore societyP : p. [263]-268. Bibliography of Texas legends.
Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society
Puro Mexicano
Author: J. Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574410969
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The cream of a large collection of Mexican lore has been accumulated over many years, partly through contributions by lovers of the gente all over the Southwest and partly through Editor J. Frank Dobie's ramblings in northern Mexico. Much of the charm of these tales comes from the keen understanding and genuine sympathy of such collectors.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574410969
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The cream of a large collection of Mexican lore has been accumulated over many years, partly through contributions by lovers of the gente all over the Southwest and partly through Editor J. Frank Dobie's ramblings in northern Mexico. Much of the charm of these tales comes from the keen understanding and genuine sympathy of such collectors.
South Texas Tales
Author: Patricia Cisneros Young
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602475482
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602475482
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas