Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany


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Editor: Francis Edward Abernethy
Contributor: Contributors to this volume include John Graves, Charles Townsend, Elton Miles, Lawrence Clayton, James Ward Lee, Paul Patterson, Al Lowman, Don Swadley
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Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780870742118
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Paperback ISBN-13: 9781574411058
Paperback ISBN-10: 870742116
Physical Description: 183 pp. 35 b&w photos. 21 illus
Publication Date: October 1985
Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society | Volume: 46
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Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany is now available as a free e-book at the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.

Folklorists look at the music of Bob Wills, "The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball," Corridos of the Big Bend, cowboy and gaucho songs, "churching," Aggie war stories, curative waters, how to make a planked pirogue, among other topics.

About Author:

FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY was Regents Professor Emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, the executive secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society, the curator of exhibits for the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. In addition to editing twenty-one Texas Folklore Society publications, he wrote Singin' Texas, Legends of Texas’ Heroic Age, and all three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society history, published by the University of North Texas Press.

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