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AUNT CORDIE'S AX AND OTHER MOTIFS IN OIL
Like most folk motifs, they involve the unusual, the unexpected.
Yet why some stories are interesting and are widely repeated and
others are not cannot be fully explained. But in any group there will
be those who know a good story when they hear one and are not too
strictly bound by facts to alter them if it makes the story better.
And there will always be feature writers who are not averse to
changing and embellishing facts to make salable copy.
1. Boyce House, Were You at Ranger? (Dallas, 1935), p. 15.
2. Ibid., p. 78.
3. Bob Duncan, The Dicky Bird Was Singing (New York, 1952),
p. 268.
4. George Sessions Perry, Hackberry Cavalier (New York, 1944),
p. 42.
5. Samuel W. Tait, The Wildcatters (Princeton, 1946), p. 113.
6. Boyce House, Oil Boom (Caldwell, 1941), p. 39.
7. Tape-recorded interview, Wichita Falls, August 13, 1952.
8. This and the two newspaper stories following are quoted by
Martin Schwettman, "The Discovery and Early Development of the
Big Lake Oil Field," M. A. Thesis, University of Texas, 1941.
9. Schwettman, op. cit., p. 20.
10. Duncan, op. cit., pp. 37 ff.
11. Quoted by Schwettman, op. cit., pp. 101-3.
12. Ibid.85
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This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
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