Texas Legends by Jackye Havenhill

Texas has two histories, her written history of valiant victories and settler’s adventures, and her oral stories or legends, often told in the evening to wide-eyed listeners.

These stories have passed from generation to generation. Sometimes they have been changed a little in the telling by the individual storyteller’s own creative style, by fill in of a detail only hazily remembered, or by exaggeration to add emphasis. It is even possible that two versions of a tale might co-exist.

The folklore of Texas represents every geographic section of Texas. Many of these stories of incidents that took place long ago are steeped in mystery and the inexplicable.

Texas Legends captures the reader in the magical web of 29 legends from the High Plains, the Rolling Prairies, the Gateway From The North, the Woodland Lakes, the Brazos Valley, the Coastal East, the Border Tropics, the Hill Country, the Pecos Frontier and the Towering West.

For the reader wishing to learn more, the author supplies her own comprehensive bibliography as a starting point.

Jackye Havenhill is a resident of Texas.