BOOKS by J. Frank Dobie

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1	Longhorns more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist A chronicle of the great days of the Texas Longhorn from the days of the Spanish conquistadores to the time of the Western cowboy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The voice of the coyote more books like this by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist 'Deftly blends the natural history of the coyote with anecdote, tall tales and legend gathered from the author's wide reading and personal experience in his native region' - "New York Times Book Review". 'Mr. Dobie has done for the coyote what he did for the longhorn in his book about that breed. He's been some 30 years gathering this material, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Apache Gold&yaqui Silver more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist Buried vaults stacked with gold bars, secret caches of coins and jewels plundered from the Spaniards and the Church, exposed veins of ore with nuggets the size of turkey eggs. Guarded by the bones of dead men, the legendary treasures of the Southwest still wait for those foolhardy or desperate enough to seek them. Death is the cure for gold ... see all copies from $3.15! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The mustangs more books like this by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist J. Frank Dobie, master storyteller of the American Southwest, here tells the tale of the wild and free mustangs that once roamed the western ranges. This is the story, too, of the white men and the Indians, no less wild and free, who captured them, gentled them, rode them, and annihilated them. An American classic, The Mustangs is a thoughtful and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Tales of Old-Time Texas more books like this by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm of language and son, and his heart open to the simple truth of folk wisdom and ways, he movingly and unpretentiously spins the tales of our collective heritages. This he does in Tales of Old-Time Texas ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $15.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Cow people more books like this by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their stories are often raucous but just as often quiet as ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $13.96! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist 1930. From In the Beginning: These tales are not creations of mine. They belong to the soil and to the people of the soil. Like all things that belong, they have their roots deep in the place of their being, deep too in the past. They are an outgrowth; they embody the geniuses of divergent races and peoples who even while fiercely opposing each ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $55.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Texas Cowboy; Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony more books like this by Charles A Siringo, J Frank Dobie (Introduction by) add to wishlist This classic cowboy memoir, originally published in 1885, relates the real-life experience of Siringo, a cowhand adventurer of the Wild West. This work is vastly responsible for the romanticism of the West, influencing the likes of Will Rogers. Siringo later served as a Hollywood consultant before his death in 1928. see all copies from $7.49! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Ben Lilly Legend more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter--the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected everything he could find about him. Lilly was born in Alabama in 1856, followed the bear and ... see all copies from $12.39! new only from $12.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Rattlesnakes more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist Here are observations and speculations, legends and yarns, even gossip about the habits and dispositions of these extraordinary creatures -- rattlesnakes -- their reported size, deadliness, and power to charm their natural enemies. see all copies from $2.42! new only from $8.05! \| first editions
11 view cover	Coronado X2019;s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest more books like this by J Frank Dobie, Charles Shaw (Illustrator), Frank H Wardlaw (Designer) add to wishlist Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. "These ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $16.62! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Legends of Texas Volume II: Pirates' Gold and Other Tales more books like this by Frank J Dobie add to wishlist In this first mass market edition of a J. Frank Dobie classic are accounts of some of the best known tales of booty hidden in Texas. Also included are eerie stories and the origins of Texas flowers, names, and streams. see all copies from $4.75! new only from $5.79! \| SVS
13 view cover	A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young more books like this by John D Young, J Frank Dobie, Justin C Gruelle (Illustrator) add to wishlist This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of thousands were killed on the prairie and where the "Skinning War" was fought. It is the story of the Chisholm Trail up to Abilene and the Platte and of ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $21.73! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes more books like this by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Frank V Dearing (Photographer), J Frank Dobie (Designer) add to wishlist Eugene Manlove Rhodes's masterpiece, "Paso Por Aqui," opens this collection of his short novels and stories, set in New Mexico, where he lived during the 1880s and 1890s. J. Frank Dobie praised Rhodes's artistry, and Bernard DeVoto thought he wrote "much the best dialogue . . . Of western characters since Mark Twain." Included are the novelettes ... see all copies from $10.97! new only from $27.40! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Up the Trail From Texas (Landmark Book) by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.21! signed copies \| first editions
16	I'll Tell You a Tale more books like this by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! signed copies \| first editions
17	Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost & Buried Treasures of the Southwest more books like this by J Frank Dobie, Ben C Mead (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions \| SVS
18	Out of the old rock more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Puro Mexicano more books like this by J Frank Dobie (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.50! new only from $20.21! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Legends of Texas Volume I: The Lost Treasures more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist The legends of Texas are as sizeable as the state itself, and the West's greatest historian has assembled here a fascinating collection of them. see all copies from $6.44! new only from $6.44! \| SVS
21	Some Part of Myself more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist see all copies from $2.40! first editions
22	Tongues of the Monte more books like this by J. Frank Dobie add to wishlist see all copies from $4.48! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Coyote Wisdom more books like this by J Frank Dobie (Editor), Harry H Ransom (Editor), Mody C Boatright (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $20.22! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Legends of Texas more books like this by J Frank Dobie (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50! new only from $20.22! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Legends of Texas: Lost Mines and Buried Treasure more books like this by J Frank Dobie add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00!

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