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Legend of Stampede Mesa [Typed Manuscript]
Austin, TX: [1924]. 4 typed leaves, 14x8.5" with several type-over corrections. Green cover sheet with typed title and Craddock's name and address in manuscript, bound with a single brad in upper corner. Previous folds, pages and cover toned and with smudging, few edge tears. Very good.
Typescript of the short story "The Legend of Stampede Mesa," a classic and often anthologized tale from Austin Texas writer and folklorist, John R. Craddock (1901-1933).
Craddock was close with J. Frank Dobie who once wrote of him:
"Of all the young men who have come under my eye... you by the genius of your imagination made a profounder impression upon me than any other."
It was Dobie who first published Craddock's story in Legends of Texas in 1924 and again in Chronicles of Oklahoma that same year. It has been collected as recently as 1998 in The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954.
In the story, Craddock relays the legends he heard growing up of how Stampede Mesa in Blanco Canyon, Crosby County, TX got its name. The legend tells of a large herd and 2 cowboys that go over the side of a cliff in the middle of a night due to a stampede likely caused by a nester. The phantom herd and riders can still be seen in the area on dark nights. Tales such as this inspired the hit song by Stan Jones, "Ghost Riders in the Sky."
An important manuscript of Texas folklore and legend.
. Item #7717
It was Dobie who first published Craddock's story in Legends of Texas in 1924 and again in Chronicles of Oklahoma that same year. It has been collected as recently as 1998 in The Best of Texas Folk and Folklore, 1916-1954.
In the story, Craddock relays the legends he heard growing up of how Stampede Mesa in Blanco Canyon, Crosby County, TX got its name. The legend tells of a large herd and 2 cowboys that go over the side of a cliff in the middle of a night due to a stampede likely caused by a nester. The phantom herd and riders can still be seen in the area on dark nights. Tales such as this inspired the hit song by Stan Jones, "Ghost Riders in the Sky."
An important manuscript of Texas folklore and legend.
Price: $400.00
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