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TALL TALES
from
TEXAS

Illustrated by

Elizabeth E. Keefer


Foreword by

J. Frank Dobie

campfire

The Southwest Press

Publishers in and of the Southwest

DALLAS, TEXAS


Copyright 1934
SOUTH-WEST PRESS


.. To ..

MY FATHER


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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
landscape

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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 andpricks up his ears” 33
“Jist as I teched the crown a feller yelled out” 47
“Well, sir, them birds jist naturally
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