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Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd (PTFS 7-1928). J. Frank Dobie, ed.

Table of Contents


I

Report, Sir

5

The Play Party in Oklahoma -- B.A. Botkin

7

Folk-Lore Relating to Texas Birds -- John K. Strecker

25

II

Tall Tales for the Tender Feet -- A.W. Penn

38

Fishback Yarne from the Sulphurs -- J.M. Deaver

42

Paul Bunyan: Oil Man -- John Lee Brooks

45

Pipeline Days and Paul Bunyan -- Acel Garland

55

Le Loup Blanc of Bolivar's Peninsula -- Philip C. Tucker

62

Pioneer Folk Tales -- Mary Jourdan Atkinson and J. Frank Dobie

69

The Corn Thief - A Folk Anecdote -- John R. Craddock

78

The Texas Pecan: The Man in the Moon -- G.T. Bludworth

79

III

Follow the Drinking Gourd -- H.B. Parks

81

Some Negro Folk-Songs of Texas -- Mary Virginia Bales

85

Six Negro Folk-Songs -- Nicolas Joseph Hutchinson Smith

113

Confidences from Old Nacogdoches -- Martha Emmons

119

The Ghosts of Lake Jackson -- Bertha McKee Dobie

135

How Mr. Polecat Got His Scent -- Kate Stoner O'Connor

137

De Pot-Song -- Palmer A. Throop

139

Songs and Ballads - Grave and Gay -- Robert Adger Law

140

IV


Some Characteristics of Cowboy Songs -- Newton Gaines

145

More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk
(Music transcribed by Carl A. Fehr) --
J. Frank Dobie

155

Proceedings of the Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1926

181

Contributors

183

Indexes

185