J Frank Dobie

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Wittliff Collections Literary
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1623498015

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The Essential J. Frank Dobie by James Frank Dobie Pdf

"Steven L. Davis has combed through the works of this renowned Texas author, gathering together in one volume Dobie's most vital writings. He then meticulously edited Dobie's stories and essays to "prune away some of the brushy undergrowth" and bring Dobie's folksy, erudite voice bounding back to life. The result is The Essential J. Frank Dobie, a treasury that introduces new readers to Dobie--and reminds older ones that Dobie produced some of the most fascinating, best-informed writing about Texas. Dobie bore eloquent witness to the passing of ancient pastoral lifeways and he captured priceless social history, collecting vanishing folklore and vibrant human stories overlooked by historians of the era. Davis, a Dobie biographer, searched for the stories only Dobie could tell--those enriched by his matchless personal adventures. Dobie rode twisting mountain trails throughout remote Mexico in search of lost mines. He helped inspire Big Bend National Park and led efforts to save the Texas Longhorn from extinction. During World War II, he dodged German V-1 bombs in England and later saw the Nazi death camps and toured Hitler's chancellery. Believing that "Texas Needs Brains," Dobie was decades ahead of his time in championing civil rights and protecting the environment"--

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0803250509

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The Voice of the Coyote by James Frank Dobie Pdf

In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulating the complex and often contentious relationship between coyotes and humans. Based on his own life experiences in Texas and twenty-five years of research, Dobie forges a sympathetic and nuanced picture of the coyote prefiguring later environmental and conservation movements. He recognizes the impact of human action on the coyote while also examining the prominent role of the coyote in the myths and legends of the West.

Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292749245

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Coronado's Children by J. Frank Dobie Pdf

“This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas.” —Basic Texas Books Written in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. “These people,” Dobie writes in his introduction, “no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado’s inheritors . . . I have called them Coronado’s children. They follow Spanish trails, buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit and tell stories of lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load . . .” This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses. “As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays.” —The New York Times “Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night.” —Chicago Evening Post

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:489010910

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The Longhorns by James Frank Dobie Pdf

Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0292707282

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The Ben Lilly Legend by J. Frank Dobie Pdf

The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter—the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. Here are all the stories Ben Lilly told and a great many more Frank Dobie heard about him, put together in a fresh and fascinating contribution to American folklore.

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 078581132X

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Tales of Old-Time Texas by James Frank Dobie Pdf

A retelling of 28 tales about or taking place in Texas.

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465546210

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Coffee in the Gourd by James Frank Dobie Pdf

Author : Steven L. Davis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292782358

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J. Frank Dobie by Steven L. Davis Pdf

The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as "Mr. Texas," Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view—a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s. In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose "liberated mind" set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc of Dobie's life (1888–1964), Davis shows how Dobie's insistence on "free-range thinking" led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the 1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which secretly investigated him) as Texas's leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : IND:39000005890533

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Coyote Wisdom by James Frank Dobie Pdf

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : UCAL:B4469915

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Cow People by James Frank Dobie Pdf

Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their stories are often raucous but just as often quiet as hot plains under a pale Texan sky. A native Texan, J. Frank Dobie had an inborn knowledge of the men and customs of the trail camps. Cattlemen were as various as the country was big. Ab Blocker was a tall, quiet man who belonged totally to the cattle and the silent plains. But big men often had big lungs. "Shanghai Pierce was the loudest man in the country. He would sit at one end of a day coach and in normal voice hold conversation with some man at the other end of the coach, who of course had to yell, while the train was clanking along. He knew everybody, yelled at everybody he saw." Texas bred tall men and taller stories. There was Findlay Simpson, who played havoc with fact but whiled away the drivers' long, lonely evenings with his tales. Old Findlay told of a country so wet that it bogged down the shadow of a buzzard, and of cattle that went into hibernation during rugged winters; he once spun yarns for three days straight, outlasting his listeners in a marathon of endurance. All real cow people--from the cattle drivers to the cattle owners--lived by a simple code based on the individual's integrity. Bothering anyone else's poke or business uninvited was strictly forbidden, and enforcement of this unwritten law was as easy as pulling a trigger. Honesty was taken for granted, and a cowman's name on a check made it negotiable currency. Yet Texas had its "bad guys"--the crooks, the thieves, even the tightwads. "A world big enough to hold a rattlesnake and a purty woman is big enough for all kinds of people," wrote Dobie. This is the world whose vast and various population the reader will find in Cow People.

Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 1574410962

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Puro Mexicano by J. Frank Dobie Pdf

The cream of a large collection of Mexican lore has been accumulated over many years, partly through contributions by lovers of the gente all over the Southwest and partly through Editor J. Frank Dobie's ramblings in northern Mexico. Much of the charm of these tales comes from the keen understanding and genuine sympathy of such collectors.

Author : James Frank Dobie,Mody Coggin Boatright,Harry Huntt Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000052160821

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In the Shadow of History by James Frank Dobie,Mody Coggin Boatright,Harry Huntt Ransom Pdf

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Cowboys
ISBN : OCLC:220585893

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A Vaquero of the Brush Country by James Frank Dobie Pdf

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018576804

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Tongues of the Monte by James Frank Dobie Pdf

Author : James Frank Dobie,Mody Coggin Boatright,Harry Huntt Ranson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89086154523

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Mustangs and Cow Horses by James Frank Dobie,Mody Coggin Boatright,Harry Huntt Ranson Pdf

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.