Author : Bertha Pauline Dutton
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 1978-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780883880494
Myths and Legends of the Navajo, Pima & Apache are told by two long-time students of the subject.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826311948
Located in Southwest Collection.
Author : José Griego y Maestas
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The "cuentos" or tales of this bilingual collection evoke the rich tradition of the early Spanish settlers and their descendants, relating the magic and events of everyday life in Colorado and the Hispanic villages of New Mexico.
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493028006
A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened—and still do happen—in the collective back yard of the Southwestern states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from cattle rustlers to runaway trains. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, and Texas. Set in the American Southwest's historic towns and sparsely populated expanses, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.
Author : Alfred Avila
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781558856370
Traditional Mexican stories tell of ghosts, evil spirits, devils, curses, and supernatural forces.
Author : Richard Young
Publisher : August House Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This collection of tales will bring its readers plenty of delicious shivers.
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152019587
Coyote insists the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in diaster.
Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 1988-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253204721
"American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.
Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1927
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
This Volume Number 6 contains folklore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero; Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household; Lore of the Llano Estacado; Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory; Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields; The Devil's Grotto; Myths of the Tejas Indians; Ballads and songs of the Frontier Folk; several essays on cowboys songs, etc.
