Backwoods to Border

Mody Coggin Boatright, Donald Day

University of North Texas Press, 1967 - History - 247 pages

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society begins with A Buffalo Hunter and His Song,” by Texas folklorist and Society editor J. Frank Dobie. The book is a collection of nineteen Texas folk tales, including Cowboy Dance Calls,” Grave Decoration,” The Ghost Nun,” Ghost Stories from Texas College for Women,” Folklore of Texas Plants,” Mexican Animal Tales,” and Anecdotes About Lawyers.”

About the author

Mody C. Boatright (18961970) served as Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society for twenty years. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, where he taught for four decades. His contributions to folklore study and the Texas Folklore Society are innumerable.



Donald Day (18991991) received his master's from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in 1940. He edited theSouthwest Review and was a staff writer and roving editor for Readers Digest.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Backwoods to Border; Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access Books; Issue 18 of Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; Issue 18 of Texas Folklore Society Publications
• Editors: Mody Coggin Boatright, Donald Day
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 1967
• ISBN: 0870740113, 9780870740114
• Length: 247 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General