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Happy Hunting Ground is now available as a free e-book at the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
This 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; Spanish songs of New Mexico; versos of the Texas vaqueros; reptile myths; the cowboy dance of the northwest; superstitions of the Northern Seas; oil field diction; folk tales of the Chibcha nation; the human hand in primitive art; and Indian pictographs near Lange's Mill. It also includes " When the Woods Were Burnt, " by L. W. Payne, Jr., the first pamphlet of the Texas Folklore Society.