I’ll Tell You a Tale: An Anthology (The J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library) - Softcover

J. Frank Dobie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292738218 ISBN 13: 9780292738218

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1981

Synopsis

I'll Tell You a Tale is a garland of some of Frank Dobie's best writing, put together by Isabel Gaddis, one of his former students at the University of Texas. The tales included are those the author himself liked best, and he even rewrote some of them especially for this anthology. Ben Carlton Mead has contributed 32 original line drawings to illustrate the stories.

These tales spring from the soil and folklore of our land; but more than this, they make the readers contemporary with the times, filling us with the wonder of something past and yet still with us. They are arranged topically into sections whose titles speak for them: "The Longhorn Breed," "Mustangs and Mustangers," "The Saga of the Saddle," "Characters and Happenings of Long Ago," "Animals of the Wild," "In Realms of Gold," and "Ironies."

About this title

About the Author:

J. Frank Dobie was a folklorist and author of many books about Texas life and culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0292738218
• ISBN 13: 9780292738218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Isabel Gaddis
• Illustrator: Carlton Mead