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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163546803321

Titolo

Legendary Ladies of Texas / edited by Francis Edward Abernethy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of North Texas Press, 1994

Denton : , : University of North Texas Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

0-585-28598-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 237 pages :) : illustrations ;

Collana

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; ; no. 43

Altri autori (Persone)

AbernethyFrancis Edward

Disciplina

390 s

305.4/09764

Soggetti

Women - Texas - Biography

Women

Legends

Women - Texas - Folklore

Women - Texas

Women - Texas - History

Legends - Texas

History

Folklore

Biographies.

United States, Texas History

United States, Texas Biography

Texas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XLIII in cooperation with the Texas Foundation for Women's Resources"--Cover.

Nota di contenuto

EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the



prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. Bailey and the Bears.

Sommario/riassunto

A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them.