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The Longhorns by J. Frank Dobie
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.54The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth,... -
Rattlesnakes by J. Frank Dobie 9780292770232
Booksplease Price: €15.64Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures-rattlesnakes-their reported size, deadliness, and power to... -
The Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie 9780803266506
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €20.09J. Frank Dobie's history of the "mustang"-from the Spanish mestena, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers-tells of its impact on the Spanish,... -
Legends Of Texas by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410938
Booksplease Price: €24.78This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has been the standard work on the subject. Included are fascinating folk narratives of buried treasure and lost mines; legends of the supernatural;... -
Straight Texas by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410976
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.66A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anecdotes from Brazos River bottoms, Mexican ghosts from El Paso, comedy in folk superstitions, witching... -
Legends of Texas by J Frank Dobie 9781258884512
RRP: €54.68Booksplease Price: €47.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258884512Author J Frank DobieFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint -
Cow People by J. Frank Dobie 9780292710603
Booksplease Price: €16.60Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting... -
Puro Mexicano by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410969
Booksplease Price: €25.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574410969Author J. Frank DobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint -
The Voice of the Coyote by J. Frank Dobie 9780803266599
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €19.52In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulating the complex and often contentious relationship between coyotes and humans. Based on his own life... -
Coyote Wisdom by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410884
Booksplease Price: €24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574410884Author J. Frank DobieFormat PaperbackImprint -
Rainbow In The Morning by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410952
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574410952Author J. Frank DobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Tales of Old-Time Texas by J. Frank Dobie
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.29It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language and song, and his heart open to the... -
The Ben Lilly Legend by J. Frank Dobie 9780292707283
Booksplease Price: €15.53The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter-the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was... -
Texian Stomping Grounds by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410891
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.Book InformationISBN 9781574410891Author J. Frank DobieFormat... -
Mustangs And Cow Horses by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410983
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574410983Author J. Frank DobieFormat PaperbackImprint -
Happy Hunting Grounds by J. Frank Dobie 9781574410945
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925. Included are articles on Mexican popular ballad;... -
Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver by J. Frank Dobie
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.26Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of... -
Texas And Southwestern Lore by J. Frank Dobie 9781574411041
Booksplease Price: €25.51This Texas Folklore Society Publication is divided into two volumes of rich, Texan folklore. The first volume contains eight folk tales, varying from "Lore of the Llano Estacado" to "Myths of the... -
Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver by J Frank Dobie 9780316187916
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €28.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316187916Author J Frank DobieFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint -
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest by J Frank Dobie 9781426410772
Booksplease Price: €22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426410772Author J Frank DobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind by Steven L. Davis 9781477312322
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as... -
I'll Tell You a Tale: An Anthology by J. Frank Dobie 9780292738218
Booksplease Price: €17.74I'll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie's best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author... -
Guide To Life And Literature Of The Southwest With A Few Observations by J Frank Dobie 9789362200600
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362200600Author J Frank DobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Stephen Grattan's Faith: A Canadian Story (Edition1) by J Frank Dobie 9789362922205
RRP: €18.46Booksplease Price: €15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362922205Author J Frank DobiePage Count 30Imprint -
Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest by J. Frank Dobie
Booksplease Price: €17.18Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those... -
Follow the Drinkin' Gou'd: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, No. 7 by J Frank Dobie 9781494042295
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €30.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494042295Author J Frank DobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint -
Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb by William A. Owens 9780292780125
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.68Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb-a naturalist, a folklorist, and a historian-all taught at the University of Texas, lived only a few blocks apart, and saw each other almost... -
The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago by Wilson M. Hudson 9781574411065
Booksplease Price: €23.45"Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago," was the favorite toast of John A. Lomax, co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society, which lends its name to this volume which opens with J. Frank Dobie's... -
The Healer of Los Olmos and Other Mexican Lore by Wilson M. Hudson 9781574411089
Booksplease Price: €19.43This volume contains Ruth Dodson's many stories of Don Pedrito Jaramillo: The Curandero of Los Olmos; in addition Soledad Perez offers his Mexican Folklore from Austin; Wilson Hudson and J. Frank... -
The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes by Eugene Manlove Rhodes 9780803289284
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €31.93Eugene Manlove Rhodes's masterpiece, "Paso Por Aqui", opens this collection of his short novels and stories, set in New Mexico, where he lived during the 1880s and 1890s. J. Frank Dobie praised... -
Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers, and Geeks Who Transformed the Capital of Texas by Joe Nick Patoski 9781623497033
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.44In this gonzo history of the "City of the Violet Crown," author and journalist Joe Nick Patoski chronicles the modern evolution of the quirky, bustling, funky, self-contradictory place known as... -
The Lost Canyon of Gold: The Discovery of the Legendary Lost Adams Diggings by W. C. Jameson 9781630761769
Booksplease Price: €15.96Join the Search for Lost Treasure First popularized by folklorist and author J. Frank Dobie in his book Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver in 1928, the legend of the Lost Adams Diggings is one of the... -
Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales, and Talk by Mody C. Boatright 9781574411096
Booksplease Price: €23.45A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie's chapter on "The Traveling Anecdote." Also included are Roy Bedichek on "Folklore in Natural History;"... -
A Texas Ranger by N.A. Jennings
Booksplease Price: €28.16Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Rexas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas ranger charged with border patrol under the command of L.H. McNelly. At this time the South... -
Recollections of Early Texas: Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins by John Holmes Jenkins 9780292770379
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €22.57"[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas." -J. Frank Dobie, from the forewordA firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas... -
21 Texas Short Stories by William Peery 9780292734524
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71This is a splendid collection of stories about Texas by Texans-stories that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.Authors in this volume:Dillon AndersonBarry... -
Stanley Marcus by Farmer D 9780875651477
Booksplease Price: €18.40First published in a limited, fine-press edition by Still Point Press in 1993, Stanley Marcus: A Life with Books sparkles with the names of literary history, most but not all of them Texans-Tom Lea,... -
Literary Austin by Don Graham 9780875653426
Booksplease Price: €28.83Don Graham brings together the history, color, and character of Texas' capital city since 1839 when it was selected, on the advice of Mirabeau B. Lamar, as the site for a new capital of the then -... -
Trails Plowed Under: Stories of the Old West by Charles M. Russell
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91'Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys...[He]... -
A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young by John D. Young 9780292787049
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.38This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of...