Happy Hunting Ground

By: Dobie, J. Frank

Book Overview

This is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925. Included are articles on Mexican popular ballad; Spanish songs of New Mexico; versos of the Texas vaqueros; reptile myths; the cowboy dance of the northwest; superstitions of the Northern Seas; oil field diction; folk tales of the Chibcha nation; the human hand in primitive art; Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill. Includes "When the Woods Were Burnt," by L. W. Payne, Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574410946
• ISBN13: 9781574410945
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"