Tales of Old-Time Texas,9780785811329

Tales of Old-Time Texas

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ISBN13: 9780785811329
ISBN10: 078581132X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): Book Sales
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Summary

J. Frank Dobie's stories seem to spring from the very soil of his native state. He tells of the famous, the infamous, nefarious, and obscure. As Mr. Dobie says, "My custom is to try to tell a tale as the original teller should have told it. Any tale belongs to whoever can tell it best."

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Part One
Corn Dodgers and San Jacinto Corn
3(11)
The Wild Woman of the Navidad
14(20)
The Dream That Saved Wilbarger
34(8)
Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts
42(9)
Jim Bowie's Knife
51(27)
The Robinhooding of Sam Bass
78(15)
Part Two
Northers, Drouths and Sandstorms
93(17)
Frozen Inside a Buffalo Hide
110(5)
The Cold-Nosed Hounds
115(7)
Honey in the Rock
122(17)
Part Three
The Texas Bluebonnet
139(8)
The Headless Horseman of the Mustangs
147(8)
A Ranch on the Nueces
155(11)
Desperate Rides
166(7)
The Planter Who Gambled Away His Bride
173(8)
Part Four
The Panther's Scream
181(14)
Bears Are Intelligent People
195(13)
Old Bill, Confederate Ally
208(11)
Part Five
Colonel Abercrombie's Mole
219(15)
The Green Powder Keg
234(7)
In a Drouth Crack
241(11)
The Stranger of Sabine Pass
252(9)
Longworth's Vicey-versey Map
261(12)
Guarded by Rattlesnakes
273(6)
The Apache Secret of the Guadalupes
279(10)
O. Henry's Treasure Hunt
289(8)
Where Did Sam McFarland Cross the Colorado?
297(4)
The Mezcla Man
301(12)
Notes and Credits 313(16)
Index 329

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