With this compilation of Texas--and Texanized--favorite myths and legends, award-winning tale teller Donna Ingham applies her own unmistakable voice to traverse her home state through such stories as: \"The Coming of the Bluebonnet\"--an oft-collected Commanche myth about love and sacrifice and the origin of the Texas state flower \"The Story Behind the Story\"--about two early cattlemen and the basis for an episode in Larry McMurtry's \"Lonesome Dove\" \"The Life and Times of Pecos Bill\"--a selection of tales about this legendary folk hero \"Diamond Bill\"--about an east Texas rattlesnake who fought in the Civil War \"Cupid Was a Mama's Boy\"--a Texanized classic Greek myth