Mexican Border Ballads and Other Lore

by Mody C. Boatright (Editor)

Overview

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574410907
Publisher:	University of North Texas Press
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Series:	Publications of the Texas Folklore Society Series , #21
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Mody C. Boatright (1896–1970) served as Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society for twenty years. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, where he taught for four decades. His contributions to folklore study and the Texas Folklore Society are innumerable.