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Mexican Border Ballads and Other Lore

Mody C. Boatright, ed.

Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Imprint: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
Pages: 148
Print ISBN: 9781574410907
eBook ISBN: 9781574410907

DESCRIPTION

This is a collection of popular folklore from Mexico and Texas, including ballads, personal anecdotes, folktales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians and other miscellaneous legends. It contains "Corridos of the Mexican Border" by Brownie McNeil; "The Envious and the Envied Compadres" by Wilson M. Hudson; "Do Rattlesnakes Swallow Their Young?" by J. Frank Dobie; "Folktales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians" by Howard N. Martin; "John Tales" by J. Mason Brewer; "The Literary Growth of the Louisiana Bullfrog" by Robert T. Clark; and "In Defense of Mrs. Mann" by Andrew Forest Muir.

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