J. Frank Dobie

Readers of these pages may recall J. Frank Dobie's Texas stories of pet rattlesnakes and "cold-nosed" hounds, but his twenty-five year-old cow is apparently intended as fact, not fancy

The saltiest and best-loved authority on horses in the Southwest, J. FRANK DOBIE has ridden the range which he writes about in his books. He has edited some twenty volumes for the Texas Folklore Society and is the author of ten books of his men, including The Longhorns, Coronado’s Children, and The Voice of the Coyote. The University of Texas has long benefited from his teaching and friendly presence: and when, in 1913, he was called to Cambridge University to the chair of American History, he recorded his experiences abroad in his book A Texan in England. Note he tells its of his beloved mustang. Buck.

A resident of Austin who taught until recently at the University of Texas, J. FRANK DOBIE is an authority on the folklore of the Southwest, He has edited some twenty volumes for the Texas Folklore Society and is the author of ten books, among them The Longhorns, Coronado’s Children, and Tongues of the Monte. A Texan in England grew out of his experience at Cambridge University, where he held the chair of American History in 1943-44; Voice of the Coyote has just been published by Little, Brown.