Folk Travelers

A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobies chapter on The Traveling Anecdote. Also included are Roy Bedichek on Folklore in Natural History; The Names of Western Wild Animals by George D. Hendricks; Bonny Barbara Allen by Joseph W. Hendren; Aunt Cordies Ax and Other Motifs in Oil by Mody C. Boatright; The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada by Robert C. Stephenson; The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry by Americo Paredes; Emerson and the Language of the Folk by John Q. Anderson; Tales of Neiman-Marcus by James Howard; The Devil in the Big Bend by Elton Miles; and others.