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Texas and Southwestern Lore
By next San Jacinto Day the membership of the Texas
Folk-Lore Society will number five hundred. Increasing orders
for the Publications are coming from all over the nation. In
short, banal and contemptible though boosting is, "everything
is lovely and the goose is hanging high."
And what, some people are asking, is to be done with all
this collected folk-lore? For one thing, a number of intelli-
gent people read it and enjoy it and are instructed by it as
they read and enjoy and are instructed by history. This folk-
lore is a part of our social history, as legitimate in its way
as the best authenticated state papers. But will someone
appear to weave it into fine ballads and novels, sift it and
translate it into representative literature? The Texas Poetry
Society is offering a prize each year for the best poem of
"The Texan Class," and it is noteworthy that many of the
poems entered make use of the findings of the Texas Folk-
Lore Society. Miss Dorothy Scarborough, a past president of
the Society, has woven an astonishing amount of folk material
into her novel, The Wind. Like Hamlet's ghost, "methinks I scent
the morning air." It is a fresh air and wonderfully bracing;
it has life in it; it is sweet to the nostrils. May it bring rain l
I wish to express thanks to Miss Anne Garrison, of the
University Conservatory of Music, Austin, for going over all
the music printed in the pages that follow. Bertha McKee
Dobie, my wife, has helped with editing and proof reading
and I am hoping that she will make the index, as she did
last year.
University of Texas, Austin, Texas,
Cinco de Mayo, 1927.
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Texas and Southwestern Lore (Book)
Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964. Texas and Southwestern Lore, book, 1927; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67662/m1/8/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Press.