RANDOLPH, VANCE. _We Always Lie to Strangers_, Columbia University Press, New York, 1951. A collection of tall tales of the adding machine variety. Fertile in invention but devoid of any yearning for the beautiful or suggestion that the human spirit hungers for something beyond horse play; in short, typical of American humor. ROURKE, CONSTANCE. _American Humor_, 1931; _Davy Crockett_, 1934; _Roots of American Culture and Other Essays_, 1942, all published by Harcourt, Brace, New York. THOMPSON, WILLIAM T. _Major Jones's Courtship_, Philadelphia, 1844. Realism. THORPE, T. B. _The Hive of the Bee-Hunter_, New York, 1854. This excellent book should be reprinted. WATTERSON, HENRY. _Oddities in Southern Life and Character_, Boston, 1882. An anthology with interpretative notes. WILSON, CHARLES MORROW. _Backwoods America_. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1935. Well ordered survey with excellent samplings. WOOD, RAY. _The American Mother Goose_, 1940; _Fun in American Folk Rhymes_, 1952; both published by Lippincott, Philadelphia. 9. How the Early Settlers Lived DESPITE THE FACT that the tendency of a majority of early day rememberers has been to emphasize Indian fights, killings, and other sensational episodes, chronicles rich in the everyday manners and customs of the folk are plentiful. The classic of them all is Noah Smithwick's _The Evolution of a State_, listed below. See also "Backwoods Life and Humor," "Pioneer Doctors," "Women Pioneers," "Fighting Texians." BARKER, E. C. _The Austin Papers_. Four volumes of sources for any theme in social history connected with colonial Texans. BATES, ED. F. _History and Reminiscences of Denton County_, Denton, Texas, 1918. A sample of much folk life found in county histories. BELL, HORACE. _On the Old West Coast_, New York, 1930. Social history by anecdote. California. OP. BRACHT, VIKTOR. _Texas in 1848_, translated from the German by C. F. Schmidt, San Antonio, 1931. Better on natural resources than on human inhabitants. OP. CARL, PRINCE OF SOLMS-BRAUNFELS. _Texas, 1844-1845_. Translation, Houston, 1936. OP. COX, C. C. "Reminiscences," in Vol. VI of _Southwestern Historical Quarterly_. One of the best of many pioneer recollections published by the Texas State Historical Association. CROCKETT, DAVID. Anything about him. DICK, EVERETT. _The Sod House Frontier_ (1937) and _Vanguards of the Frontier_ (1941). Both OP. Life on north-ern Plains into Rocky Mountains, but applicable to life southward. DOBIE, J. FRANK. _The Flavor of Texas_, 1936. OP. Considerable social history. FENLEY, FLORENCE. _Oldtimers: Their Own Stories_, Uvalde, Texas, 1939. OP. Faithful reporting of realistic detail. Southwest Texas, mostly ranch life. FRANTZ, JOE B. _Gail Borden, Dairyman to a Nation_. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951. This biography of a newspaperman and inventor brings out sides of pioneer life that emphasis on fighting, farming, and ranching generally overlooks.