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The Texas Folklore Society is a non-profit organization formed on December 29, 1909, in Dallas, Texas. [1] According to John Avery Lomax, the first print collection included "public songs and ballads; superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs; legends; dialects; games, plays and dances; fiddles and proverbs."
Her first of many contributions to the society was to Texas and Southwestern Lore, [8] "a collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales." [10] She added tales and songs "of the masculine world of the vaqueros."
The Texas Folklore Society grew gradually over the next decade, with Lomax steering it forward. At his invitation, Kittredge and Wendell attended its meetings. Other early members were Stith Thompson and J. Frank Dobie, who both began teaching English at the university in 1914. In 1915, at Lomax's recommendation, Stith Thompson became the ...
Texas Folklore Society; W. William A. A. Wallace; Wild Man of the Navidad This page was last edited on 24 December 2020, at 15:50 (UTC). Text is ... Texas folklore.
Texas has a considerable independent body of folklore, primarily in connection with its historical ranching and cowboy cultures, the American Old West, and the Texas War of Independence. The Texas Folklore Society is the second-oldest folklore organization continually functioning in the United States. Many well-known figures and stories in ...
Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. (July 12, 1873 – June 16, 1945) was an American linguist and professor of English at the University of Texas.He was a co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society along with John Lomax, edited the first anthology of Texas literature, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of e.e. cummings.
Hamer studied and wrote about Texas history, politics, and folklore for journals such as the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the Frontier Times. [1] One of her most popular writings, "Anecdotes as Sidelights to Texas History," was published in a 1939 Texas Folklore Society publication titled In the Shadow of History. [9]
[1] [5] She published for the Texas Folklore Society and for the San Antonio newspapers, [6] for more than 20 years. Estill was one of the first members of the Texas Folklore Society to publish information regarding Native American culture in Gillespie County in the article "Indian Pictographs Near Lange's Mill, Gillespie County (Illustrated ...