TALL TALES
from
TEXAS
By Mody C. Boatright
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
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] |
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 and pricks up his ears” | [33] |
| “Jist as I teched the crown a feller yelled out” | [47] |
| “Well, sir, them birds jist naturally lifted me right out of that sink hole” | [63] |
| “A settin’ on that tornado and a-spurrin’ it in the withers” | [85] |
| “That gal come ridin’ down the Río Grande on a catfish” | [93] |