A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobies chapter on ?The Traveling Anecdote. Also included are Roy Bedichek on ?Folklore in Natural History; ?The Names of Western Wild Animals, by George D. Hendricks; ?Bonny Barbara Allen, by Joseph W. Hendren; ?Aunt Cordies Ax and Other Motifs in Oil, by Mody C. Boatright; ?The Western Ballad and the Russian Ballada, by Robert C. Stephenson; ?The Love Tragedy in Texas-Mexican Balladry, by Americo Paredes; ?Emerson and the Language of the Folk, by John Q. Anderson; ?Tales of Neiman-Marcus, by James Howard; ?The Devil in the Big Bend, by Elton Miles; and others.
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