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Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations By: J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie (1888-1964) |
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Revised And Enlarged In Both Knowledge And Wisdom By J. Frank Dobie
Dallas. 1952 Southern Methodist University Press
Not copyright in 1942 Again not copyright in 1952 Anybody is welcome to help himself to any of it in any way
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 52 11834 S.M.U. PRESS
Contents A Preface with Some Revised Ideas
1. A Declaration
2. Interpreters of the Land
3. General Helps
4. Indian Culture; Pueblos and Navajos
5. Apaches, Comanches, and Other Plains Indians
6. Spanish Mexican Strains
7. Flavor of France
8. Backwoods Life and Humor
9. How the Early Settlers Lived
10. Fighting Texians
11. Texas Rangers
12. Women Pioneers
13. Circuit Riders and Missionaries
14. Lawyers, Politicians, J.P.'s
15. Pioneer Doctors
16. Mountain Men
17. Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Trail
18. Stagecoaches, Freighting
19. Pony Express
20. Surge of Life in the West
21. Range Life: Cowboys, Cattle, Sheep
22. Cowboy Songs and Other Ballads
23. Horses: Mustangs and Cow Ponies
24. The Bad Man Tradition
25. Mining and Oil
26. Nature; Wild Life; Naturalists
27. Buffaloes and Buffalo Hunters
28. Bears and Bear Hunters
29. Coyotes, Lobos, and Panthers
30. Birds and Wild Flowers
31. Negro Folk Songs and Tales
32. Fiction Including Folk Tales
33. Poetry and Drama
34. Miscellaneous Interpreters and Institutions
35. Subjects for Themes
Index to Authors and Titles
Illustrations
Indian Head by Tom Lea, from A Texas Cowboy
by Charles A. Siringo (1950 edition)
Comanche Horsemen by George Catlin, from
North American Indians
Vaquero by Tom Lea, from A Texas Cowboy
by Charles A. Siringo (1950 edition)
Fray Marcos de Niza by Jose Cisneros, from
The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza by
Cleve Hallenbeck
Horse by Gutzon Borglum, from Mustangs
and Cow Horses
Praxiteles Swan, fighting chaplain, by John W.
Thomason, from his Lone Star Preacher
Horse's Head by William R. Leigh, from The
Western Pony
Longhorn by Tom Lea, from The Longhorns
by J. Frank Dobie
Cowboy and Steer by Tom Lea, from The
Longhorns by J. Frank Dobie
Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from The
Virginian by Owen Wister (1916 edition)
Mustangs by Charles Banks Wilson, from The
Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie
Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from The
Untamed by George Pattullo Pancho Villa by Tom Lea, from Southwest
Review, Winter, 1951
Frontispiece by Tom Lea, from Santa Rita by
Martin W. Schwettmann
Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from The
Blazed Trail by Agnes C. Laut
Buffaloes by Harold D. Bugbee
Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from Fifteen
Thousand Miles by Stage by Carrie
Adell Strahorn
Coyote Head by Olaus J. Murie, from The
Voice of the Coyote by J. Frank Dobie
Paisano
A Preface With Some Revised Ideas IT HAS BEEN ten years since I wrote the prefatory "Declaration" to this
now enlarged and altered book. Not to my generation alone have many
things receded during that decade. To the intelligent young as well as
to the intelligent elderly, efforts in the present atmosphere to opiate
the public with mere pictures of frontier enterprise have a ghastly
unreality. The Texas Rangers have come to seem as remote as the
Foreign Legion in France fighting against the Kaiser. Yet this Guide ,
extensively added to and revised, is mainly concerned, apart from the
land and its native life, with frontier backgrounds. If during a decade
a man does not change his mind on some things and develop new points of
view, it is a pretty good sign that his mind is petrified and need no
longer be accounted among the living... Continue reading book >>
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