Legendary Ladies of Texas
A study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press
1994
1994. |
| Edición: | 2nd ed |
| Colección: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;
no. 43 |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434517206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
