TALL TALES
from
TEXAS
Illustrated by
Elizabeth E. Keefer
Foreword by
J. Frank Dobie
The Southwest Press
Publishers in and of the Southwest
DALLAS, TEXAS
Copyright 1934
SOUTH-WEST PRESS
.. To ..
MY FATHER
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Table of Contents
| Page | |
| Preface—J. Frank Dobie | vii |
| Introduction | xix |
| Pizenous Windies | 1 |
| Speed | 18 |
| Birds and Beasts | 28 |
| Wind and Weather | 40 |
| By the Breadth of a Hair | 53 |
| The Genesis of Pecos Bill | 68 |
| Adventures of Pecos Bill | 80 |
| The Exodus of Pecos Bill | 95 |
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List of Illustrations
| “I feels somethin’ tappin’ me on the leg” | 12 |
| “Jist as he pulls the trigger, he runs to beat hell” | 23 |
| “Purty soon the whiffle-pooffle gits interested andpricks up his ears” | 33 |
| “Jist as I teched the crown a feller yelled out” | 47 |
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