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Subject(s)

• Texas—Social life and customs—Humor [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dust jackets (Binding)—New York (State)—Garden City—20th century [Browse]

Summary note

For over thirty years, Frank Tolbert - storyteller, collector of tall tales, friend of everyone from cowboys to drifters to millionaire oilmen - has written his popular column, "Tolbert's Texas", for the Dallas News. And now, in typical Texas style, Tolbert has gathered the best yarns about the Lone Star State into one humdinger of a book.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• I. The music makers. A mojo hand
• Lead belly country
• Lightnin' electrifies people
• Jules Bledsoe's "sad stone"
• How did Blind Lemon die?
• II. Daily living. Cooking for a president
• The peyote dealer
• Some slaves I've known
• May's cafe in a cow pasture
• Pap has been plowing more than one hundred years
• A rough-tongued priest
• Bill Willie's private jungle
• The moonshiner of Drunkard's Branch
• III. The good old boys. Lady Bird's father
• Old Man Garner
• John Neely Bryan, the wild Indians' friend who founded Dallas
• "Friendship through eternity"
• Dallas' "hot dog mayor," J. Waddy Tate
• The Earl of Aylesford
• IV. The money spenders. The witch of Wall Street's son
• Silver Dollar Jim
• The wild flowers man of the oil fields
• Girl from a half-million-acre ranch
• V. Bits and pieces. Miss Ima Hogg
• The Henderson County hamburger
• In Uncertain, Texas
• An "aspirin taste" at Headache Springs
• Ghosts of the Caddo Lake country
• Up in Eunice's room
• The orange Christmas
• A Japanese garden at the Nimitz Hotel
• A beautiful town misspells its name
• The Oompah Band sheriffs
• Winning wasn't anything
• VI. Under the farkleberry tree. The great farkles
• Awesome power of the Arkansas farkle
• Psychiatrists love farkles
• Why the farkle failed to become Texas' state berry.

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Other title(s)

Texas.

ISBN

0385085826 :

LCCN

^^^78022820^

OCLC

8865484

RCP

H - S

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