The Belle of Marble Falls and the Bear King

Deep in the Hill Country, the old stories are still told.

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About this edition

Of the belle of Marble Falls, carried off into the cedar by the thing that walks in a bear’s skin. Of Jim Bowie’s silver, lost on the San Sabá and hunted to this day. Of a pirate’s fortune buried under a nameless oak, a mesa where the phantom herd still runs, a maiden who gave up the one thing she loved and woke to a hillside of bluebonnets, and the weeping woman who walks the river after dark, searching for her children.

Twenty-six Texas myths and legends, retold by Jessica von Braun in a voice as old as the country and as close as a fire on a dark night. Faithful to the old tellings and alive on the page, it is a keepsake collection of the tales that made the country.

Among them: The Bear King, The Lost San Sabá Mine, The Enchanted Rock, Stampede Mesa, The White Steed, The Lady in Blue and La Llorona.

Details

• Jessica von Braun
• Twenty-six Texas myths and legends, newly retold
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback, 6 × 9, 86 pages