Includes bibliographical references.

A Texas folk drama: "The Diamond Bessie murder trial" / James W. Byrd -- Julia Nott Waugh on Los pastores / John Igo -- Semana Santa in Seville / Charles B. Martin -- The decoration of graves in central Texas with seashells / Sara Clark -- The cotton gin / E. J. Rissman -- Log cabins to Sunday houses / Esther L. Mueller -- Black Easter-April 14, 1935 / Sylvia Grider -- The camp meeting sketch in old southwest humor / Bill F. Fowler -- Politics in O. Henry's stories / E. Hudson Long -- Myth in The winter of our discontent / Kyra Jones -- The railroad in American folk song, 1865-1920 / Ann Miller Carpenter -- The professor who didn't get his grades in-a travelling anecdote / James T. Bratcher -- Unequivocal justice / J. T. McCullen, jr -- Marriage customs in Thessaly and Macedonia / Pina S. Sturdivant -- The Johannesburg mine dances / Martin Staples Shockley