num_pages: 160
description: Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmothers knee to urban legends collected down the years each of these vital narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jos Melndez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs for scholarly research and an introduction by noted folklorist Mark Glazer provides a larger context for the work.
language: English
title: Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas
publisher: Lamar University Press