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A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune (open access)

A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune

Volume of miscellaneous folklore about Texas and Mexico, including Mexican folktales, Texas folk songs, information about Texas streams and information about racial discrimination in the South. The index begins on page 273.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coffee in the Gourd (open access)

Coffee in the Gourd

Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corners of Texas (open access)

Corners of Texas

This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including information about folk music, folk arts and crafts, history of Texas, prominent Texas writers, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 285.
Date: 1993
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coyote Wisdom (open access)

Coyote Wisdom

This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 1938
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore (open access)

Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about animals, folk music, weather lore, folk beliefs, legends, folk medicine, poetry and other folktales. The index begins on page 229.
Date: 1999
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk (open access)

Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
El ataque a Ciudad Juarez y los acontecimientos del 14 al 18 de Junio (open access)

El ataque a Ciudad Juarez y los acontecimientos del 14 al 18 de Junio

This piece provides a firsthand account of the attack on Ciudad Juarez by Villistas and related events, including the American incursion. It also provides information regarding the effects of the battle on El Paso, Texas and includes named civilian casualties. The official American response is also noted.
Date: 1919
Creator: Enciso Durán, Xavier
System: The Portal to Texas History
La Ultima Tragedia o El Calvario De Un Gral. Mexicano: Captura! Sentencia! Y Muerte! Del Gral. Felipe Angeles (open access)

La Ultima Tragedia o El Calvario De Un Gral. Mexicano: Captura! Sentencia! Y Muerte! Del Gral. Felipe Angeles

Account describing the death of General Felipe Angeles during the Mexican Revolution
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Battery A on the Mexican Border (open access)

Battery A on the Mexican Border

This book is an account of Battery A of the Rhode Island National Guard and its activation on June 24, 1916, its travel to the U.S.-Mexico border, its activities until it was mustered out on November 2, 1916. They were stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and also referred to their site as Camp Pershing. Includes a narrative description of their trip by train, their camp and training activities on the border. Also includes many reproductions of photographs of the troops and sites, cartoons, and a list of personnel.
Date: 1916
Creator: Stiness, Henry R. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hecho en Tejas: Texas-Mexican Folk Arts and Crafts (open access)

Hecho en Tejas: Texas-Mexican Folk Arts and Crafts

Book about Texas and Mexican folk arts and crafts, including paper crafts, quilting, weaving, sculpture, yard art, saddle-making, and other folk crafts. The index begins on page 349.
Date: 1991
Creator: Graham, Joe S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hunters & Healers: Folklore Types & Topics (open access)

Hunters & Healers: Folklore Types & Topics

Volume of Texan and Mexican folklore, including stories about hunting, folk medicine, ballads, religion and other folklore. The index begins on page 169.
Date: 1971
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legendary Ladies of Texas (open access)

Legendary Ladies of Texas

Collection of historical anecdotes providing "a study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them" (back cover). The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1994
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mesquite and Willow (open access)

Mesquite and Willow

Collection of Texas, Spanish and Mexican folklore, including legends, child ballads, folk tales, folk songs, tall tales, information about home remedies, and other folklore.
Date: 1957
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany (open access)

Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany

Collection of Texas and Mexican folklore, including "folk tales, folklore in journalism, reflections on the lore of the past, and some analyses of folklore generally" (inside of the front cover).
Date: 1978
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spur-of-the-Cock (open access)

Spur-of-the-Cock

Collected miscellany of Texas and Mexican folklore, including stories about the Mayo Indians, Mexican folk plays, folk songs, information about Texas cacti and other folklore. The index begins on page 110.
Date: 1933
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas (open access)

Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas

This book covers statistical information for the state of Texas. It includes "great inducements for the investment of capital, health for the invalid, interesting sights and scenes for the tourist and pleasure seeker, broad fields of research for the historian, unsurpassed hunting grounds for the sportsman, and other resources waiting to be unlocked by the key of capital in the hands of labor and industry" (title page).
Date: 1890
Creator: Missouri Pacific Railway Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
[El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico Business Directory for 1885] (open access)

[El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico Business Directory for 1885]

Directory for El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. Separate introductions give narrative histories and descriptions of El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte (later called Ciudad Juárez) with lists of major public buildings and officials.
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Classified Business Directory of the Cities of El Paso, Texas and Cuidad Juarez, Mexico for the years 1892 and 1893 (open access)

Classified Business Directory of the Cities of El Paso, Texas and Cuidad Juarez, Mexico for the years 1892 and 1893

Directory for El Paso, Texas: "Containing under separate heads information pertaining to these cities - consisting of a Street Guide, Census of Names, Classified Business, Church, Society, and official Directory and other valuable information."
Date: 1892
Creator: El Paso and Juarez Directory Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Directory of the City of El Paso, Texas 1900 (open access)

Directory of the City of El Paso, Texas 1900

Directory for El Paso, Texas: includes postal guide, local officials, address listings for businesses and individuals, and advertisements from local businesses.
Date: 1900
Creator: John F. Worley & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buck's Directory of El Paso for 1902 (open access)

Buck's Directory of El Paso for 1902

Directory for El Paso, Texas includes: address listings for businesses and individuals, advertisements from local businesses, listings of government officials, a postal guide, a business directory, a directory for Chihuahua, Mexico, and a review of El Paso's development.
Date: 1902
Creator: Buck Directory Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
El Paso Directory for 1903 (open access)

El Paso Directory for 1903

"Containing a General Directory of the Citizens and Business Firms Alphabetically Arranged, a Classified Business Directory, a Complete Street Guide and Miscellaneous Information of Value to Citizens and Strangers."
Date: 1903
Creator: John F. Worley & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coyote Wisdom (open access)

Coyote Wisdom

This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corners of Texas (open access)

Corners of Texas

This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including information about folk music, folk arts and crafts, history of Texas, prominent Texas writers, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 285.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hunters & Healers: Folklore Types & Topics (open access)

Hunters & Healers: Folklore Types & Topics

Volume of Texan and Mexican folklore, including stories about hunting, folk medicine, ballads, religion and other folklore. The index begins on page 169.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library