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Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest
REVISED AND ENLARGED IN BOTH KNOWLEDGE AND
WISDOM
J. FRANK DOBIE
DALLAS . 1952
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY PRESS
Not copyright in 1942 Again not copyright in 1952
Anybody is welcome to help himself to any of it in any way

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 52-11834
S.M.U. PRESS

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 Index to Authors and Titles
Illustrations Indian Head by Tom Lea, from A Texas Cowboy by
Charles A. Siringo (1950 edition) Comanche Horsemen by George
Catlin, from North American Indians Vaquero by Tom Lea, from A
Texas Cowboy by Charles A. Siringo (1950 edition) Fray Marcos de
Niza by Jose Cisneros, from The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza by
Cleve Hallenbeck Horse by Gutzon Borglum, from Mustangs and Cow
Horses Praxiteles Swan, fighting chaplain, by John W. Thomason, from
his Lone Star Preacher Horse's Head by William R. Leigh, from The
Western Pony Longhorn by Tom Lea, from The Longhorns by J. Frank
Dobie Cowboy and Steer by Tom Lea, from The Longhorns by J. Frank
Dobie Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from The Virginian by Owen
Wister (1916 edition) Mustangs by Charles Banks Wilson, from The
Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from
The Untamed by George Pattullo

Pancho Villa by Tom Lea, from Southwest Review, Winter, 1951
Frontispiece by Tom Lea, from Santa Rita by Martin W. Schwettmann

Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from The Blazed Trail by Agnes C.
Laut Buffaloes by Harold D. Bugbee Illustration by Charles M. Russell,
from Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage by Carrie Adell Strahorn Coyote
Head by Olaus J. Murie, from The Voice of the Coyote by J. Frank
Dobie Paisano

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 to
opiate the public with mere pictures of frontier enterprise have a
ghastly unreality. The Texas Rangers have come to seem as remote as
the Foreign Legion in France fighting against the Kaiser. Yet this
Guide, extensively added to and revised, is mainly concerned, apart
from the land and its native life, with frontier backgrounds. If during a
decade a man does not change his mind on some things and develop
new points of view, it is a pretty good sign that his mind is petrified and
need no longer be accounted among the living. I have an inclination to
rewrite the "Declaration," but maybe I was just as wise on some matters
ten years ago as I am now; so I let it stand.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself.
I have heard so much silly bragging by Texans that I now think it
would be a blessing to themselves--and a relief to others--if the
braggers did not know they lived in Texas. Yet the time is not likely to
come when