Product Description: One of the foundational documents of Mexican American history in Texas is a master’s thesis written in 1929 at the University of Texas. It has never before been published. A woman, a folklorist, and a member of an ethnic minority in an era of Anglocentrism, Jovita González created a study that has served as source material on the Texas-Mexican Borderlands for more than seventy-five years...read more

Product Description: The writer Jovita González was long a member--and ultimately served as president--of the Texas Folklore Society, which strove to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by González in periodicals such as the Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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