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I’ll Tell You a Tale

I’ll Tell You a Tale

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I'll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie's best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author himself liked best, and he even rewrote some of them especially for this anthology. Ben Carlton Mead has contributed 32 original line drawings to illustrate the stories.

These tales spring from the soil and folklore of our land; but more than this, they make the readers contemporary with the times, filling us with the wonder of something past and yet still with us. They are arranged topically into sections whose titles speak for them: "The Longhorn Breed," "Mustangs and Mustangers," "The Saga of the Saddle," "Characters and Happenings of Long Ago," "Animals of the Wild," "In Realms of Gold," and "Ironies."

This is a collection of more than fifty stories about the old Southwest.

J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) was a folklorist and author of many books about Texas life and culture.

    The Author's Intrusion

    The Longhorn Breed

      Sancho's Return

      Bill Blocker's Lead Steer

      Tablecloth—Outlaw

      Stampede on the Cimarron

      The Man Who Hung Hisse'f

      The Maverick Branded Murder

      The Bull Who Was Not

      Bulls at a Waterhole on the Ramireña

      Cow Music

      Mustangs and Mustangers

        The Pacing White Steed of the Prairies

        Black Devil

        Blue Streak

        Alacrán

        Mustang Gray

        The Mustanger Who Turned Mustang

        The Headless Horseman of the Mustangs

        Running with the Wild Mares

        The Saga of the Saddle

          Little Aubry's Ride

          Chester Evans and Prince

          The Marqués de Aguayo's Vengeance

          I Remember Buck

          Characters and Happenings of Long Ago

            Tom Gilroy's Fiddler

            The Dream That Saved Wilbarger

            Bigfoot Wallace and the Hickory Nuts

            The Robinhooding of Sam Bass

            Yaller Bread and Pa'tridge Pie

            Taller and Too Much Pepper

            Esau the Hunter

            Animals of the Wild

              The Voice of the Coyote

              Old Crip

              Playing Possum

              Magician with Chickens

              Brother Coyote and Brother Cricket

              The Panther's Scream

              Baby-Hungry

              Befriended by a Panther

              Pablo Romero Roped a Bear

              The Bear Who Fattened His Own Pork

              In a Hollow Tree with a She Bear

              Bear Nights in Mexico

              Diamond Bill, Confederate Ally

              In Realms of Gold

                The Broken Metate

                Where the Gleam Led Captain Cooney

                Pedro Loco

                In a Drouth Crack

                The Mezcla Man

                The Rider of Loma Escondida

                General Mexhuira's Ghost

                Midas on a Goatskin

                Ironies

                  A Machete with a History

                  Godmother Death and the Herb of Life

                  No Blue Bowl for Panchito

                  Whence These Tales Have Come

                  Glossary of Spanish-Mexican Words

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