[PDF] Magazine Publications By And About J Frank Dobie eBook

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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1968
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This bibliography of the writings of J. Frank Dobie lists the books, pamphlets, prefaces, introductions, and other contributions, and magazine articles by Mr. Dobie, as well as a select group of writings about him. It also lists the publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society. It contains numerous quotations from the pen of Mr. Dobie, especially from many of his fine dedications in his books, which are so typical of his understanding of those people that he felt had contributed so much to his love of life -- Book jacket.

Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292707283

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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 : Mary Louise McVicker
Publisher : Lawton [Okla.] : Museum of the Great Plains
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Authors, American
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A bibliography of the writings of J. Frank Dobie has been needed for a number of years by libraries, students, and collectors of Dobie material. This definitive compilation by Mary Louise McVicker fills that need. While unquestionably some new items will appear, this bibliography, with subsequent revisions, will remain as the permanent listing of this unique author's contributions to the colorful history and legend of the Southwest. J. Frank Dobie encouraged both Miss McVicker and the Museum of the Great Plains in their endeavors to see this bibliography in print -- Book jacket.

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Wittliff Collections Literary
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781623498016

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"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 : Steven L. Davis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0292782357

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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 : Lon Tinkle
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Authors, American
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Recounts the life of one of the best loved storytellers of the American Southwest.