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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fulcher, Walter, 1887-1953, author.     Subjects     Tales -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.     Names, Geographical -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.     Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fulcher, Walter, 1887-1953, author.       by title:      The way I heard it :...         MARC Display

The way I heard it : tales of the Big Bend / by Walter Fulcher ; edited with introductions and notes by Elton Miles. by Fulcher, Walter, 1887-1953, author. Austin, University of Texas Press [1959] Subjects Tales -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.   Names, Geographical -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.   Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- History. ISBN:  9780292790278 (paperback) : 0292790278 (paperback) Description:  xxvii, 87 pages : illustration, portrait ; 22 cm Contents:  Who was Walter Fulcher? / Elton Miles -- Foreword -- Oxcarts and Chihuahua wagons: The double wedding at Terlingua; El Cibolo and the Indians; El Cibolo and the Spaniards -- Romance in a wigwam -- Places, names, and what happened: El Cerro Santiago; El Caballo Muerto; That word "chisos"; The Chisos Mine -- Will James: Big Bend Superman -- Outlaws and bandidos: The Ketchum Train robbery [Black Jack Ketchum gang]; Rio Grande justice -- Despedida: Farewell. Requests:  0 Summary:  The folklore of the Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked as a young man on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield. There he witnessed the last outlaw activities of the notorious Black Jack Ketchum gang. And he heard ranch-hands from both sides of the border tell their tales of the exciting country around the Big Bend of the Rio Grande.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 976.493 Fu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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