Legends of Texas

About this eBook

Editor

Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964

Original Publication

United States: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1924.

Credits

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Mines and mineral resources -- Texas -- Folklore

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70859

Release Date

May 25, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.EDITOR’S PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.LEGENDS OF BURIED TREASURE AND LOST MINES
6. 6.AN INQUIRY INTO THE SOURCES OF TREASURE LEGENDS OF TEXAS — I — II — III — IV — V
7. 7.THE LEGEND OF THE SAN SABA OR BOWIE MINE — I — II — III
8. 8.LOST GOLD OF THE LLANO COUNTRY — I — The Brook of Gold Discovered by Lost Rangers — II — The Smelter on the Little Llano
9. 9.LOST MINES OF THE LLANO AND SAN SABA — I — A Legend of the Blanco Mine — II — The Mythical Bowie Mine
10. 10.TREASURE LEGENDS OF McMULLEN COUNTY — The Rock Pens — A Week Too Late at the Laredo-San Antonio Crossing — The Chest at Rock Crossing on the Nueces — San Caja Mountain Legends — The Mines — Loma de Siete Piedras — The Metate Rocks of Loma Alta — When Two Parallel Lines Intersected — A Lucky Post Hole
11. 11.LEGENDARY SPANISH FORTS DOWN THE NUECES — Fort Ramirez on the Ramireña — I — II — The Legend of Casa Blanca — Lutzer’s Find at Fort Planticlan
12. 12.TREASURE CHEST ON THE NUECES
13. 13.THE BATTLEFIELDS OF PALO ALTO AND RESACA DE LA PALMA IN LEGEND — I — II
14. 14.HOW DOLLARS TURNED INTO BUMBLE BEES AND OTHER LEGENDS — I — II — III — IV 1
15. 15.NATIVE TREASURE TALK UP THE FRIO
16. 16.THE SILVER LEDGE ON THE FRIO
17. 17.LOST MINES NEAR SABINAL — I — The Quicksilver Mine of the Rangers — II — Lost Lead Mine
18. 18.THE NIGGER GOLD MINE OF THE BIG BEND 1
19. 19.MYSTERIOUS GOLD MINE OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS
20. 20.LOST COPPER MINES AND SPANISH GOLD, HASKELL COUNTY
21. 21.LOST LEAD MINE ON THE BRAZOS, KING COUNTY
22. 22.THE ACCURSED GOLD IN THE SANTA ANNA MOUNTAINS
23. 23.THE HOLE OF GOLD NEAR WICHITA FALLS
24. 24.BURIED TREASURE LEGENDS OF COOKE COUNTY — I — II — III
25. 25.THE TREASURE CANNON ON THE NECHES
26. 26.THE DREAM WOMAN AND THE WHITE ROSE BUSH
27. 27.STEINHEIMER’S MILLIONS
28. 28.THE SNIVELY LEGEND — I — II — III
29. 29.BURIED TREASURE LEGENDS OF MILAM COUNTY — I — The San Gabriel Mission in Legend — II — The Gold Protected by Snively’s Ghost — III — Pope’s Ghost at the Gap
30. 30.THE WAGON-LOAD OF SILVER IN CLEAR FORK CREEK
31. 31.MORO’S GOLD
32. 32.LEGENDS OF THE SUPERNATURAL
33. 33.THE LEGEND OF STAMPEDE MESA
34. 34.THE WOMAN OF THE WESTERN STAR: A LEGEND OF THE RANGERS
35. 35.THE DEVIL AND STRAP BUCKNER 1 — He Cometh! — La Noche Triste — The Day of Events — He Returns
36. 36.THE LEGEND OF CHEETWAH
37. 37.THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN BLUE
38. 38.THE HEADLESS SQUATTER
39. 39.MYSTERIOUS MUSIC IN THE SAN BERNARD RIVER
40. 40.THE DEATH BELL OF THE BRAZOS
41. 41.THE LEGEND OF THE SALT MARSHES (SAN LUIS PASS, BRAZORIA COUNTY)
42. 42.RHYMES OF GALVESTON BAY — THE BOAT THAT NEVER SAILED — THE PADRE’S BEACON 1 — BAFFLE POINT — POINT SESENTA — GUMMAN GRO
43. 43.LEGENDS OF LOVERS
44. 44.LEGENDS OF LOVERS
45. 45.THE ENCHANTED ROCK IN LLANO COUNTY
46. 46.FRANCESCA: A LEGEND OF OLD FORT STOCKTON
47. 47.LOVER’S RETREAT AND LOVERS’ RETREAT (PALO PINTO) — I — II — Lover’s Retreat — III — Lovers’ Retreat
48. 48.LOVER’S LEAP IN KIMBLE COUNTY
49. 49.THE WAITING WOMAN
50. 50.LOVER’S LEAP AT SANTA ANNA 1
51. 51.ANTONETTE’S LEAP OR THE LEGEND OF MOUNT BONNELL — I — II — The Legend As Told by Morphis 1 — III — IV
52. 52.PIRATES AND PIRATE TREASURE IN LEGEND
53. 53.From SUNSET IN AUGUST: GALVESTON BEACH
54. 54.LIFE AND LEGENDS OF LAFITTE THE PIRATE — I — Jean Lafitte: Man and Pirate — II — Credence in the Lafitte Legend — III — The Horror Guarded Treasure of the Neches — IV — Pirates and Their Sacks of Gold — V — Lafitte’s Treasure Vault
55. 55.THE UNEASY GHOST OF LAFITTE
56. 56.LAFITTE LORE
57. 57.A LEGEND OF THEODOSIA BURR ALLSTON
58. 58.LEGENDARY ORIGINS OF TEXAS FLOWERS, NAMES, AND STREAMS
59. 59.AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE BLUE BONNET
60. 60.HOW THE WATER LILIES CAME IN THE SAN MARCOS RIVER 1
61. 61.THE LEGEND OF EAGLE LAKE
62. 62.THE HOLY SPRING OF FATHER MARGIL AT NACOGDOCHES
63. 63.INDIAN BLUFF ON CANADIAN RIVER 1
64. 64.HOW MEDICINE MOUNDS OF HARDEMAN COUNTY GOT THEIR NAME
65. 65.THE NAMING OF METHEGLIN CREEK, BELL COUNTY
66. 66.HOW DEAD HORSE CANYON GOT ITS NAME
67. 67.HOW THE BRAZOS RIVER GOT ITS NAME — I — The Miraculous Escape — II — How Perishing Seamen Named the River — III — The Great Drouth and the Waters at Waco — IV — A Miraculous Swim — V — Arms Avenging and Saving
68. 68.HOW THE BRAZOS AND THE COLORADO ORIGINATED
69. 69.MISCELLANEOUS LEGENDS
70. 70.THE WHITE STEED OF THE PRAIRIES — THE WHITE STEED OF THE PRAIRIES
71. 71.THE LEGEND OF SAM BASS
72. 72.THE HORN WORSHIPERS
73. 73.THE CAVE OF MONTEZUMA
74. 74.THE FIRST CORN CROP IN TEXAS
75. 75.LA CASA DEL SANTA ANNA
76. 76.LOST CANYON OF THE BIG BEND COUNTRY — I — II
77. 77.A TRADITION OF LA SALLE’S EXPEDITION INTO TEXAS
78. 78.BIG FOOT AND LITTLE FOOT
79. 79.THE WILD WOMAN OF THE NAVIDAD
80. 80.BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXAS LEGENDS — TREASURE LEGENDS
81. 81.CONTRIBUTORS
82. 82.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING (1923) OF THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY — I — II — III
83. 83.MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY, 1924 — I — PATRONS AND LIFE MEMBERS — II — LIFE MEMBERS 1 — III — MEMBERS WITH JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY PRIVILEGES — IV — ANNUAL MEMBERS
84. 84.INDEX
85. 85.PUBLICATIONS OF THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
86. 86.MEMBERSHIP IN THE TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
87. 87.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — Corrections

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