GUIDE TO LIFE AND LITERATURE OF THE SOUTHWEST

Revised And Enlarged In Both Knowledge And Wisdom

By J. Frank Dobie

CONTENTS

A Preface With Some Revised Ideas

1. A Declaration

2. Interpreters of the Land

3. General Helps

4. Indian Culture; Pueblos and Navajos

5. Apaches, Comanches, and Other Plains Indians

6. Spanish-Mexican Strains

7. Flavor of France

8. Backwoods Life and Humor

9. How the Early Settlers Lived

10. Fighting Texians

11. Texas Rangers

12. Women Pioneers

13. Circuit Riders and Missionaries

14. Lawyers, Politicians, J. P.'s

15. Pioneer Doctors

16. Mountain Men

17. Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Trail

18. Stagecoaches, Freighting

19. Pony Express

20. Surge of Life in the West

21. Range Life: Cowboys, Cattle, Sheep

22. Cowboy Songs and Other Ballads

23. Horses: Mustangs and Cow Ponies

24. The Bad Man Tradition

25. Mining and Oil

26. Nature; Wild Life; Naturalists

27. Buffaloes and Buffalo Hunters

28. Bears and Bear Hunters

29. Coyotes, Lobos, and Panthers

30. Birds and Wild Flowers

31. Negro Folk Songs and Tales

32. Fiction—Including Folk Tales

33. Poetry and Drama

34. Miscellaneous Interpreters and Institutions

35. Subjects for Themes

A Preface With Some Revised Ideas

IT HAS BEEN ten years since I wrote the prefatory "Declaration" to this now enlarged and altered book. Not to my generation alone have many things receded during that decade. To the intelligent young as well as to the intelligent elderly, efforts in the present atmosphere