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Texas Sayings & Folklore

Product Description: On the eve of his 100th birthday, Dr. Mavis P. Kelsey shares a generous collection of sayings from his homeland. What began as an enjoyable hobby and led to a limited edition book has now been expanded to include thousands more folk sayings...read more

By Mavis Parrott Kelsey, Sr.

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9781936474929 | Bright Sky Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: On the eve of his 100th birthday, Dr.

Mit Controlling Zum Projekterfolg: Partnerschaftliche Strategien Fur Controller Und Projektmanager

Product Description: ââDas projektbegleitende Controlling (pC) Ã¼bernimmt eine zentrale Aufgabe innerhalb eines Projekts. Durch Planung, Kontrolle, Analyse und Steuerung trÃ¤gt das projektbegleitende Controlling entscheidend zur erfolgreichen Umsetzung bei...read more

By Manfred Noe

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9783834941510 | Gabler, December 16, 2012, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: ââDas projektbegleitende Controlling (pC) Ã¼bernimmt eine zentrale Aufgabe innerhalb eines Projekts.

9780292780125, titled "Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb : A Personal History" | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1975, cover price $32.95 | also contains Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb : A Personal History | About this edition: Roy Bedichek, J.

First Timers and Old Timers: The Texas Folklore Society Fire Burns on

Product Description: âThe Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I donât really think thereâs any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors...read more

By Kenneth L. Untiedt (editor)

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9781574414714 | Univ of North Texas Pr, December 15, 2012, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: âThe Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I donât really think thereâs any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong.

Bloomin' Tales: Legends of Seven Favorite Texas Wildflowers

Product Description: Whether wandering down a Texas back-country road or passing by a vacant city lot, all around you grow untamed beauties, each with a story to tell. Â TheseÂ are the wildflowers of Texas,Â demonstrating aÂ tenacious spirit andÂ diversity only topped by the Lone Star State's people...read more

By Cherie Foster Colburn and Joy Fisher Hein (illustrator)

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9781936474189 | Bright Sky Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Whether wandering down a Texas back-country road or passing by a vacant city lot, all around you grow untamed beauties, each with a story to tell.

Bloomin' Tales: Seven Favorite Wildflower Legends

Product Description: There's aÂ world at our feet few even notice, full of untamed beauties with bizarre names and even more bizarre stories. A book for children of ALL ages,Â Bloomin' TalesÂ brings the history of these ultimate survivalists - the wildflowers - to lifeÂ with exciting legends passed down from those who settled the land: the French, Scottish, Mexican, and English, along with the original settlers,Â the Native Americans...read more

By Joy Fisher Hein (illustrator)

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9781936474363 | Bright Sky Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: There's aÂ world at our feet few even notice, full of untamed beauties with bizarre names and even more bizarre stories.

Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore

Includes personal essays, folktales, songs, and biographies

By Francis Edward Abernethy (editor), Alan B. Govenar (editor) and Patrick B. Mullen (editor)

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9781574410181 | Univ of North Texas Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Includes personal essays, folktales, songs, and biographies

Paperback:

9781574412833 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 30, 2010, cover price $29.95

Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009

Product Description: The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and mostÂ prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than aÂ formal academic gathering...read more

By Kenneth L. Untiedt (editor)

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9781574412772 | Univ of North Texas Pr, December 28, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and mostÂ prestigious organizations in the state.

Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore

Product Description: The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life on the go.This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society features articles from beloved storytellers like John O...read more

By Kenneth L. Untiedt (editor)

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9781574412383 | Univ of North Texas Pr, December 30, 2007, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The adventurous spirit of Texans has led to much travel lore, from stories of how ancestors first came to the state to reflections of how technology has affected the customs, language, and stories of life on the go.

Folklore: In All of Us, in All We Do

By Kenneth L. Untiedt (editor)

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9781574412239 | Univ of North Texas Pr, December 30, 2006, cover price $34.95

Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys

Presents the author's retellings of fifteen traditional tales heard during his childhood in southern Texas.

By Xavier Garza

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9781558854109 | Pinata Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents the author's retellings of fifteen traditional tales heard during his childhood in southern Texas.

Reinforced:

9780606330282 | Demco Media, December 27, 2004, cover price $19.15 | About this edition: Presents the author's retellings of fifteen traditional tales heard during his childhood in southern Texas.

Texas: Land of Legend and Lore

By Bill Cannon

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9781556229497 | Taylor Pub, October 28, 2004, cover price $16.95

Adventures With a Texas Humanist

Product Description: For the first half of the twentieth century, Texas literature, culture, and folklore were dominated by J. Frank Dobie, the man Lon Tinkle called ÂMr. Texas.â Dobieâs Texas was a land of exuberance and romance, a time when Texas was proud of itself and not loath to let the world know it...read more

By James Ward Lee

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9780875652887 | Texas Christian Univ Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For the first half of the twentieth century, Texas literature, culture, and folklore were dominated by J.

Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State

Product Description: Bluebonnets and tumbleweeds, gunslingers and cattle barons all form part of the romanticized lore of the state of Texas. It has an image as a larger-than-life land of opportunity, represented by oil derricks pumping black gold from arid land and cattle grazing seemingly endless plains...read more

By Laura Lyons McLemore

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9781585443147 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Bluebonnets and tumbleweeds, gunslingers and cattle barons all form part of the romanticized lore of the state of Texas.

The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends

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By Francis Edward Abernethy (editor), Jerry Bryan Lincecum (editor) and Frances Brannen Vick (editor)

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9781574411683 | Univ of North Texas Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $34.95

The Ghostly Rider and Other Chilling Stories

A collection of twenty traditional tales from southern Texas viewed through the author's experiences on the cattle ranches owned by his father, including one in an area known as 'el desierto muerto.'

By Hernan Moreno-Hinojosa

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9781558854000 | Pinata Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of twenty traditional tales from southern Texas viewed through the author's experiences on the cattle ranches owned by his father, including one in an area known as 'el desierto muerto.

Texas Myths & Legends: Stories of the Frontier

Product Description: The Texas frontier was a vast, unsettled area that beckoned to the daring, an area that offered a fresh start. Those who had suffered financial misfortune or had brushes with the law could come out West and begin anew, if they had sufficient courage...read more

By John C. Ferguson

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9781893114425 | State House Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Texas frontier was a vast, unsettled area that beckoned to the daring, an area that offered a fresh start.

Texas & Southwestern Lore

This Texas Folklore Society Publication is divided into two volumes of rich, Texan folklore. The first volume contains eight folk tales, varying from ÂLore of the Llano Estacadoâ to ÂMyths of the Tejas Indians.â The second volume centers around the cowboy way of life and cowboy songs, such as ÂSongs the Cowboys Singâ and ÂSong of the Open Range.â (view table of contents)

By J. Frank Dobie (editor)

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9780870740442, titled "Texas and Southwestern Lore" | Reprint edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1967), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This Texas Folklore Society Publication is divided into two volumes of rich, Texan folklore.

Paperback:

9781574411041, titled "Texas and Southwestern Lore" | Texas A & M Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $21.95

2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey

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By Francis Edward Abernethy (editor) and Shannon R. Thompson (editor)

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9781574411409 | Univ of North Texas, October 1, 2001, cover price $32.95

The Legend of Strap Buckner: A Texas Tale

When pride gets the better of Strap Buckner, a man known throughout Texas for his prodigious strength, he rashly challenges the devil to a contest.

By Andrew Glass (illustrator) and Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge

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9780823415366 | Holiday House, September 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When pride gets the better of Strap Buckner, a man known throughout Texas for his prodigious strength, he rashly challenges the devil to a contest.

Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories

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By Jim Gramon

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9781556228254 | Taylor Pub, November 1, 2000, cover price $18.95

Happy Hunting Ground

Product Description: Book by Dobie, J. Frank

By J. Frank Dobie

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9780870741494 | 2 edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 1, 1975), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Dobie, J.

Straight Texas

Product Description: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from El Paso, comedy in folk superstitions, witching for water with the Bible, pioneer folk ways, old sayings from Texas, Irish fairies in Texas, Alabama Indian music, and tales from the Alabamas...read more

By J. Frank Dobie

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Hardcover:

9780870741647 | Reissue edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, December 1, 1984), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tan cloth binding.

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9781574410976 | Univ of North Texas Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

Rainbow in the Morning