James Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 – September 18, 1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books...
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J. Frank Dobie High School is a public secondary school located in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1968, it is named after the Texas writer of the same name...
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Dobie Center, named after J. Frank Dobie, is a formerly privately-owned 27-story residence hall located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. On...
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (also known as simply Dobie Gillis or Max Shulman's Dobie Gillis in later seasons and in syndication) is an American sitcom...
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The J. Frank Dobie House is a historic house in Austin, Texas built in the Colonial Revival style in 1925–26. The house was bought by J. Frank Dobie in...
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Beatrix Dobie (1887-1945), New Zealand artist Don Dobie (1927–1996), politician Gil Dobie (1878–1948), footballer Hector Dobie (1860–1954), politician J. Frank...
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The Wind (1928) starring Lillian Gish. According to Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie, this novel "excited the wrath of chambers of commerce and other boosters...
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after ten years. Flores is a native of Houston, Texas. He attended J. Frank Dobie High School in Houston and is in the JFD Hall of Fame. He graduated...
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well as articles and books describing the search for it. Folklorist J. Frank Dobie devoted part of his book "Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver" to the story...
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heart and a sentimental hero fighting for justice. The Texas historian, J. Frank Dobie, wrote many years ago in A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929): ".....
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of Texas at Austin Longhorn, the mascot (a Texas Longhorn bull) of J. Frank Dobie High School, Houston Longhorn, A candy of chocolate, pecans, and caramel...
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resurrected unless it were whole. (Petite (1999), p. 139.) Historians J. Frank Dobie and Lon Tinkle requested that they not be listed as historical advisers...
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How Pierce acquired the name "Shanghai" is a matter of speculation. J. Frank Dobie reported that it was due to Pierce's resemblance to a banty Shanghai...
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school's sports teams, known as the Texas Longhorns. A few years later, J. Frank Dobie and others gathered small herds to keep in Texas state parks. Oilman...
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attracting Texas literatis such as Frank Wardlaw, John Henry Faulk, Roy Bedichek, Mody Boatright, and J. Frank Dobie. In 1961, Webb met Terrell Louise...
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Numerous ranches surround George West. The Texas author and folklorist J. Frank Dobie was born in Live Oak County near George West in 1888. Former State Senator...
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List of Western fiction authors (section J)
Davis (1894–1960) John Deacon J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) Gary Dobbs (born 1965) Ivan Doig (1939–2015) Harry Sinclair Drago J. T. Edson (1928–2014) Edward...
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set was released on September 10 of that year. Dwayne Hickman as Dobie Gillis Frank Faylen as Herbert T. Gillis (32 episodes) Florida Friebus as Winifred...
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Center Garrison Hall Goldsmith Hall Heman Sweatt Campus J. Frank Dobie House Pickle Research Campus J.T. Patterson Labs Building Jackson Geological Sciences...
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of Dobie Gillis; the series' on-screen title was shortened to Dobie Gillis starting with this season. The first half of the season explores Dobie Gillis'...
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"best guesses apparently lie between two and five million". Historian J. Frank Dobie hypothesized that the population peaked around the end of the Mexican–American...
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Vice President. He was re-elected for a second term in 1913. In 1922, J. Frank Dobie became secretary-treasurer of the Texas Folklore Society, a job he was...
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Silver, Dobie, J. Frank, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1939, page 5 Dobie, page 5 Dobie, pg 11 Dobie, pg 15 Dobie, pgs 17-18 Dobie, pg 20 Dobie, pg 24...
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Clemens High School (Schertz) The junior high schools cover grades 7–8. J. Frank Dobie Junior High (Cibolo) Ray D. Corbett Junior High (Schertz) The intermediate...
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Center Garrison Hall Goldsmith Hall Heman Sweatt Campus J. Frank Dobie House Pickle Research Campus J.T. Patterson Labs Building Jackson Geological Sciences...
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politician and candidate for the 2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election J. Frank Dobie, author (deceased) Lloyd Doggett, Congressman, representing portions...
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fights against social injustice, came to the fore. The Texas historian, J. Frank Dobie, wrote in A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929): "...because his daring...
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and this led to a partnership with a friend of his father, author J. Frank Dobie. Dobie wrote about the rough life of settling the Texas frontier and Lea's...
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while in Austin, Brewer met J. Frank Dobie, then the secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society. According to Byrd, Dobie was the "biggest influence...
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Washington, D.C. (1993) Philosopher's Rock (1994), depicting Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb, Zilker Park, Austin, Texas The Irish Memorial...
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