Bounty of Texas (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

In addition to reminiscences of trapping and hunting in the Big Bend and West Texas during the 1920s and 1930s, this miscellany includes a heretofore unpublished outdoors sketch by J.Frank Dobie on deer hunting, and a piece that disagrees with Larry McMurtry's contention that Dobie's work "will not outlive him by more than a generation." From Paul Stone's perspective on the Yale scene, "Dobie's importance in the formal national academic community has grown since 1964 and ... it will continue growing in the twenty-five years to come."

Elmer Kelton, Joyce Roach and Robert Flynn take a humorous look at their work and hometowns, Paul Patterson takes a look at the adventures of riding the rails, Kenneth Davis tells tales of souls departing their bodies. The bounty of the tables of the earlier settlers, and the bounty of the ethnic heritages, along with folksong scholarship of Dorothy Scarborough, the art of Ben Mead, and the folklore inspired by Ollie North and many more are included in this bountiful book.