Research Catalog

Title

Mody Boatright, folklorist: a collection of essays. Edited, with an introd., by Ernest B. Speck. Biographical essay by Harry H. Ransom. Foreword by Wayland D. Hand.

Author

Boatright, Mody C. (Mody Coggin), 1896-1970.

Publication

Austin, Published for the Texas Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press [1973]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Speck, Ernest B.
• Texas Folklore Society.

Description

xxvi, 198 pages illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Boatright, Mody C. 1896-1970
• Boatright, Mody C. 1896-1970
• Folklore > West (U.S.)
• Folklore > Texas
• Folklore
• Manners and customs
• Folklore > Texas
• West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
• Texas > Social life and customs
• Texas
• West United States
• West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
• Texas > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [187]-189.

Contents

Foreword / Wayland D. Hand -- Biographical Essay / Harry H. Ranson -- Introduction / Ernest B. Speck -- Acknowledgements -- The Genius of Pecos Bill (1929) -- The Myth of Frontier Individualism (1941) -- Frontier Humor: Despairing or Buoyant? (1942) -- Gib Morgan Among the Heroes (1945) -- The Art of Tall Lying (1949) -- The American Myth Rides the Range: Owen Wister's Man on Horseback (1951) -- Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other Motifs in Oil (1953) -- The Nature of Myth (1954) -- Folklore in a Literate Society (1958) -- The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore (1958) -- The Oil Promoter as Trickster (1961) -- Theodore Roosevelt, Social Darwinism, and the Cowboy (1964) -- How Will Boatright Made Bits and Spurs (1970) -- Selected Bibliography.

ISBN

• 0292750072
• 9780292750074

LCCN

73006908

OCLC

• ocm00724236
• 724236
• SCSB-326998

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library