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is a most respectable Professor of Physics in Texas Christian
University, at Fort Worth, but when he dresses for the part and
with his guitar sings cowboy songs a stranger would not be
able to tag him.
Poteet, Texas, noted for its strawberries and for Mexican
folk-players, in addition to furnishing Laura Atkins to this
volume, also provides the setting for Helen Gates, another teacher.
Like her, Fermina Guerra heard the call to write folk-lore in
J. Frank Dobie's course, "Life and Literature of the Southwest,"
in the University of Texas. Miss Guerra's article is autobiography;
it is only a part of a rich study of ranchero folk life, in Webb
County, Texas, presented as a thesis for the M.A. degree at
the University of Texas, 1941. She lives at Laredo.
The children's games of pioneer days that Mrs. Ida B. Hall
tells about were, in part, played by her grandmother in South
Carolina and her mother in Arkansas. Mrs. Hall lives in Austin.
Roy D. Holt has published in The Cattleman and other
magazines articles dealing with "The Texas Fence-Cutting War"
and other range country themes. He is superintendent of the
public schools at Sanderson.
Guy Kirtley, of Angelina County, had been interested in
East Texas lore for a number of years before he died, too young,
in 1940. The Southwest Review published one of his stories.
Just to know that the Texas Legislature once had Lloyd E.
Price as a member puts a body in better humor with that fre-
quently irritating assemblage. Price is a distinguished lawyer
of Fort Worth. He is a champion story-teller and in 1940 added
to the gayety of all concerned by presiding as toastmaster at the
annual dinner of the Texas Folk-Lore Society, in Austin.
Olcutt Sanders, also of Fort Worth, after graduating from the
University of Texas in 1939, became field secretary for the Ameri-
can Friends Service Committee.
Archie Steagall's home is Huntsville. Elsie Upton, a native
of East Texas, taught various country schools in the Hill Country,
where she gathered material for her article. She now lives in
Austin. Virginia Walker, of Center, learned about pie suppers
before she became a school teacher, three years ago.158
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Collection containing sketches of post-war life in East Texas, including descriptions of early recreations and games, stories about Southern food and cooking, religious anecdotes, Negro folk tales, a first-hand account of a Negro folk play about the life of Christ, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 159.
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Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964. Texian Stomping Grounds, book, 1941; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67663/m1/161/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.