Contents -- Preface to North Texas Edition -- The Big Thicket: An Introduction - Francis E. Abernethy -- A Sketch of the Geology and Soils of the Big Thicket - Saul Aronow -- Folklore in the Big Thicket - Archer Fullingim -- Tales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians - Howard N. Martin -- Settling the Old Poplar-Tree Place - Vinson Allen Collins -- Grandma Harrison: A Day at Drew's Landing - Ethel Osborn Hill -- The Battle at Bad Luck Creek - Dean Tevis -- Buckshot and Blue Whistler: An Interview with Frank Herrington - Frances Pitts Norvell -- Camp Big Thicket: Life in the Piney Woods, 1887 - John A. Caplen -- We Trailed Them through the Marshes - Solomon Alexander Wright -- Texas Bear Hunt, 1906 - L. L. Kiene -- Boom-Town Tales - Alice Cashen -- Tales from Uncle Owen - Lois Williams Parker -- Sour Lake: Spa of the Big Thicket - Ruth Garrison Scurlock -- A Family Full of Legends - Ellen Walker Rienstra -- Big Thicket Balladry - William A. Owens -- From Moss Hill - Margaret L. Hewett -- The Saratoga Light - Francis E. Abernethy -- Index.