J. Frank Dobie

James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888–September 18,1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range. As a public figure, he was known in his lifetime for his outspoken liberal views against Texas state politics, and for his long personal war against what he saw as bragging Texans, religious prejudice, restraints on individual liberty, and the assault of the mechanized world on the human spirit. He was also instrumental in the saving of the Texas longhorn breed of cattle from extinction.

List of works

• A Vaquero of the Brush Country
• Rattlesnakes
• I'll Tell You a Tale
• The Mustangs
• The Ben Lilly Legend
• Mustangs and Cow Horses, editor
• The Longhorns
• The Voice of the Coyote
• Gauchos of the Pampas and their Horses, editor
• Coronado's Children
• Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver
• Tales of Old-Time Texas
• Legends of Texas
• Cow People
• Some Part of Myself
• Prefaces
• A Texan in England
• Tongues of the Monte
• Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest

Many of Dobie's works are featured in Ramon Adams' Six-Guns and Saddle Leather and The Rampaging Herd, two well respected bibliographic works on the history of the American West and the cattle industry.

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