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Capitan Chiquito Volume 47
A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821-1919
Inbunden, 2022
422 kr
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Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito: A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821–1919 relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During …
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865
Häftad, 2014
254 kr
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The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations.Then Mexican …
Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999
Av Jorge Iber
Inbunden, 2000
398 kr
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Here, the author looks at the history and culture of Hispanics in Utah and examines the impact of their widespread conversion from Catholicism to Mormonism. His study examines Hispanic assimilation and acculturation in a setting vastly different from other states.
America's Frontier Culture
Three Essays
Häftad, 2003
167 kr
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Here, Ray A. Billington outlines the three century-long process of westering that forged the American characteristics of resourcefulness, individualism and democracy, and upward social mobility.
Massacre on the Lordsburg Road
A Tragedy of the Apache Wars
Av Marc Simmons
Häftad, 2004
341 kr
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In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge McComas and his wife and kidnapped their six-year-old son, Charley, as the family traveled on a desolate road in southwestern New Mexico Territory, all victims of revenge sought by the Apaches for Gen. George Crook's campaign. At the time, the …
Comanche Society
Before the Reservation
Av Gerald Betty
Häftad, 2005
254 kr
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Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty through bison hunting and fierce warfare. In ""Comanche Society"", Gerald Betty develops an …
Life Among the Texas Indians
The WPA Narratives
Häftad, 2005
283 kr
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Historian David La Vere has gathered a wealth of vivid detail about life among the former Texas Indian peoples, including the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Caddos, Tonkawas, and Lipan Apaches. Culled from 112 volumes of the Indian-Pioneer Histories in the Indian Archives at the Oklahoma Historical …
Life Along the Border
A Landmark Tejana Thesis
Av Jovita Gonzalez, Maria Eugenia Cotera
Häftad, 2006
208 kr
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The 1929 master's thesis of folklorist, Jovita Gonzalez has served as source material on the Texas-Mexican borderlands for more than seventy-five years but has never before been published. When Gonzalez decided to pursue a master's degree in history from the University of Texas, she was already the …
Lone Star Pasts
Memory and History in Texas
Av Gregg Cantrell, Elizabeth Hayes Turner
Häftad, 2006
283 kr
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The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as important as the objective facts of that past. The memories used by a people to define itself have to be understood not just as (sometimes) bad history but also as …
Juan Davis Bradburn
A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac
Häftad, 2011
202 kr
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This provocative revisionist look at a Mexican official long vilified in Texas gives a new perspective on specific events involving Juan Davis Bradburn. It also helps to explain early stages of the Texas war for independence in terms of the refusal of Anglo settlers to accept the ""un-American"" …
Colonial Natchitoches
A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier
Av H. Sophie Burton, F. Todd Smith
Häftad, 2014
225 kr
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Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniards and Indians of Texas. Its critical economic and diplomatic role made it the most …
We Never Retreat
Filibustering Expeditions Into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822
Inbunden, 2015
553 kr
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The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century - invasion of foreign lands by private military forces.Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short …
Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821–1859
Häftad, 2016
254 kr
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For the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, the period from 1821 to 1859 was particularly devastating. Once thriving communities, the Karankawas survived only as scattered individuals after a small remnant on the banks of the Rio Grande was massacred, and the few remaining Tonkawas had been pushed across …
General Alonso De Leon's Expeditions Into Texas, 1686-1690
Inbunden, 2017
529 kr
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In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has identified sixteen manuscript copies of de León’s …
Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border
Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, and the Vergara Affair
Inbunden, 2018
486 kr
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In early 1914, Clemente Vergara discovered several of his horses missing and reported the theft to local authorities. The Webb County sheriff arranged for the South Texas rancher to meet with Mexican soldiers near Hidalgo to discuss compensation for his loss. Vergara crossed the Rio Grande, soon …
Preserving German Texan Identity
Reminiscences of William a. Trenckmann, 1859-1935
Av Walter L. Buenger, Walter D. Kamphoefner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
500 kr
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Born in Millheim, Texas, to a family of German immigrants who moved to Texas in the wake of the 1848 revolution, William Andreas Trenckmann was a teacher, journalist, and publisher who successfully combined his German heritage with a new, distinctly Texan identity. His education was cultivated at …
To the Vast and Beautiful Land
Anglo Migration Into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s–1820s
Inbunden, 2019
529 kr
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To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author's career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original …
Red Tom" Hickey
The Uncrowned King of Texas Socialism
Inbunden, 2020
529 kr
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This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, became a machinist, and soon joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. His party boss recognized the potential in this Irishman and even made him an …
We Want Better Education!
The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas
Inbunden, 2023
549 kr
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In “We Want Better Education!”, James B. Barrera offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the educational, cultural, and political issues of the Chicano Movement in Texas, which remains one of the lesser-known social and political efforts of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This …
Steeped in a Culture of Violence
Murder, Racial Injustice, and Other Violent Crimes in Texas, 1965–2020
Av Brandon T. Jett, Kenneth Howell
Inbunden, 2023
524 kr
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The Texas shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018, which killed ten and injured thirteen, prompted public debate over the causes and potential solutions to this type of violent episode. On May 21, 2018, National Rifle Association president Oliver North declared that a culture of violence …
Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier Volume 42
The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus
Av Daniel J. Gelo, Christopher J. Wickham
Häftad, 2023
399 kr
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Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of TexasIn 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and …
Francisco Amangual, Trustee of the Presidio
Administration, Dereliction, and the Flying Squadrons in the Comandancia General, 1700-1810
Inbunden, 2024
754 kr
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Historian Roland RodrÍguez explores the military career of Captain Francisco Amangual (1739–1810) whose presence in the presidial hierarchy included active participation in convoys, skirmishes, and routine, day-to-day administration. The main thrust of the narrative examines Amangual’s tenure as …
Run for Your Lives!
Gender and the Runaway Scrape
Inbunden, 2024
467 kr
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The “Runaway Scrape” is, among Texas historians, at once recognizable but often less understood. While shelves of books examine the fall of the Alamo and the revolutionary victory at San Jacinto, surprisingly little sustained attention has been given to the chaotic period from the early to late …
Hugo O'Conor
A Shadow of Ireland in New Spain
Inbunden, 2026
510 kr
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Hugo O'Conor: A Shadow of Ireland in New Spain presents a comprehensive biography of Hugo O'Conor (1734–1779), the first Commandant Inspector of the Interior Provinces of New Spain. Demonstrating the remarkable breadth of O'Conor's life experiences, the narrative moves from his early life in …
Immigrant Soldier in the Mexican War
Av Frederick Zeh, William J Orr m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
409 kr
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Geronimo's Kids
A Teacher's Lessons on the Apache Reservation
Av Robert S. Ove, H. Henrietta Stockel
Inbunden, 1997
318 kr
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Totally ignorant of what the Chiricahuas had endured and survived, in my one-room classroom at Whitetail I taught Geronimo's kids American history, including the 'fact' that the Indians of the Southwest had to be subdued by every means possible so that the settlers, the miners, the ranchers, the …
Chiricahua Apache Women and Children
Safekeepers of the Heritage
Inbunden, 2017
286 kr
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White Painted Woman appears in ancient myths of the Chiricahua Apaches as the virgin mother of the people and the origin of women’s ceremonies. Such Chiricahua myths and traditions have closely prescribed the roles of women in relation to their husbands and children, to relatives and extended …
