When folk and fun are not scienced out of
it, it is song and story and in literature is mingled with
other ingredients of life and art, as exampled by the folklore
in _Hamlet_ and _A Midsummer Night's Dream_. In "Indian
Culture," "Spanish-Mexican Strains," "Backwoods Life and
Humor," "Cowboy Songs," "The Bad Man Tradition," "Bears,"
"Coyotes," "Negro Folk Songs and Tales," and other chapters of
this _Guide_ numerous books charged with folklore have been
listed.
The most active state society of its kind in America has been
the Texas Folklore Society, with headquarters at the
University of Texas, Austin. Volume XXIV of its Publications
appeared in 1951, and it has published and distributed other
books. Its Publications are now distributed by Southern
Methodist University Press in Dallas. J. Frank Dobie, with
constant help, was editor from 1922 to 1943, when he resigned.
Since 1943 Mody C. Boatright has been editor.
In 1947 the New Mexico Folklore Society began publishing
yearly the _New Mexico Folklore Record_. It is printed by the
University of New Mexico Press. The University of Arizona,
Tucson, has published several folklore bulletins.
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