Rainbow in the morning /
edited by J. Frank Dobie.
- Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1975.
- 190, 13 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 5 .
Reprint of the 1965 ed. published by Folklore Associates, Hatboro, Pa., which was issued as no. 5 of Publications of the Texas Folklore Society. Originally published in 1926 by The Texas Folklore Society Some current folk-songs of the Negro, by W. H. Thomas (p. [3]-13, 2d group) Includes index.
Preface to the reprint edition / Wilson M. Hudson -- Remarks necessary and unnecessary / J. Frank Dobie -- Some Texas versions of "The frog's courting" / L. W. Payne, Jr. -- A Texas border ballad / Mattie Austin Hatcher -- Reptiles of the south and southwest in folk-lore / John K. Strecker -- On the origins of reptile myths / John K. Strecker -- Familiar sayings of old time Texans / Mary Jourdan Atkinson -- The tournament in Texas / J. Frank Dobie -- Episodes at ranch community dances / Branch Isbell -- Pioneer Christmas customs of Tarrant County / Mary Daggett Lake -- Superstitions of Bexar county / E. R. Bogush -- Buffalo lore and boudin blanc / Douglas Branch -- Old time darky plantation melodies / Natalie Taylor Carlisle -- The negro as interpreter of his own folk-songs / R. C. Harrison -- South Texas negro work-songs / Gates Thomas -- Will Thomas and the Texas Folk-lore Society -- Some current folk-songs of the negro and their economic interpretation / Will H. Thomas