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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.
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