| Tales from the Big Thicket: Volume 1 Contributor(s): Abernethy, Francis Edward (Editor) |
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ISBN: 157441142X ISBN-13: 9781574411423 Publisher: University of North Texas Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: The secretive beauty and mystery of the Big Thicket of East Texas would inevitably inspire tales -- and the pioneers who came to terms with this land were an individualistic and legend-creating lot. In Tales from the Big Thicket, Francis E. Abernethy presents a collection of stories about the Big Thicket and its people. The reader will find herein the history and folklore of the area, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a Civil War episode involving a search for hidden Jayhawkers, a travel account from the nineteenth century, and a history of one of the region's legendary families, the Hooks. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 976.415 |
| LCCN: 2002018791 |
| Series: Temple Big Thicket Series |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.44" W x 8.66" (0.93 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks. |