Author : Mody C. Boatright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574411072
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Singers and Storytellers by : Mody C. Boatright
Download or read book Singers and Storytellers written by Mody C. Boatright and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the essays among the twenty-nine making up this collection salute taletellers, furnishing demonstrations by way of tall tales and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of frontier preachers and hound dogs, and superstitions and folk medicine. Add tales of outlaws, buried-treasure searches, ethnic lore localized in the state, and many other subjects, and you have something to suit anybody's taste. A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.