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Author: Kwame Shauku Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1435747038 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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Simon Spencer continues his Journey through manhood, as a Private Investigator and Finder of Missing Persons. Simon is hired by a long time friend to find her granddaughter who was kidnapped from her train coming home for Summer Vacation from a Texas University. Los Comancheros are a gang of renegade bikers who terrorize Interstate Highway 10 along the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona borders from Mexico. After rescuing his friend's granddaughter, he partners with the sister of a slain undercover policeman to free the Raramuri Slaves used by the Mexican Drug Cartel to process Cocaine. Heading home to San Francisco, Simon finds he is being hunted by the Mexican Mafia who follow him to San Francisco for a major gun battle at the San Francisco Airport. There are many action packed twists to this adventure.
Author: Kwame Shauku Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1435747038 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
Simon Spencer continues his Journey through manhood, as a Private Investigator and Finder of Missing Persons. Simon is hired by a long time friend to find her granddaughter who was kidnapped from her train coming home for Summer Vacation from a Texas University. Los Comancheros are a gang of renegade bikers who terrorize Interstate Highway 10 along the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona borders from Mexico. After rescuing his friend's granddaughter, he partners with the sister of a slain undercover policeman to free the Raramuri Slaves used by the Mexican Drug Cartel to process Cocaine. Heading home to San Francisco, Simon finds he is being hunted by the Mexican Mafia who follow him to San Francisco for a major gun battle at the San Francisco Airport. There are many action packed twists to this adventure.
Author: A. Gabriel Meléndez Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806158638 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history and their identity—military records, travelers’ diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and more—and bind them into a leather portfolio known as “The Book of Archives.” When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the book’s contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts lives on instead in the minds of Mora residents. Poets and storytellers pass down the valley’s traditions into the twentieth century, from one generation to the next. In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, author A. Gabriel Meléndez joins their ranks, continuing the retelling of Mora Valley’s tales for our time. A native of Mora with el don de la palabra, the divine gift of words, Meléndez mines historical sources and his own imagination to reconstruct the valley’s story, first in English and then in Spanish. He strings together humorous, tragic, and quotidian vignettes about historical events and unlikely occurrences, creating a vivid portrait of Mora, both in cultural memory and present reality. Local gossip and family legend intertwine with Spanish-language ballads and the poetry of New Mexico’s most famous dueling troubadours, Old Man Vilmas and the poet García. Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, Meléndez weaves a colorful dual-language representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today.
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“Just let me sing!” These are the prophetic words of Freddy Fender, who rose from an impoverished background in south Texas to achieve international superstardom as a rock ‘n’ country singer during the 1970s. For the millions of fans worldwide who have loved Freddy, this book offers an in-depth exploration of Freddy’s personal and professional life: from his hardscrabble childhood to his raucous early years, leading to his explosion onto the world stage as a one-of-a-kind performer. The Life Story of Freddy Fender is the first of a two-volume publication which will tell the story of this singular entertainer. Written by Freddy’s daughter, Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender, the book conveys in rich detail what Freddy went through to succeed. The book also reveals the painful truth behind that success, and how the misery of substance abuse tore both him and his family apart. Freddy’s journey to redemption forms the heart of this biography, as does his faith in a Higher Power. Frank, uncompromising, and bold, this book is the definitive work on the life and legacy of Freddy Fender, told as no other could tell.
Author: Enrique R. Lamadrid Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826328786 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 284
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One of the great festival traditions shared by Pueblo and Hispano across New Mexico is the celebration Los Comanches. In this series of winter festivals, communities come alive with colorful processions, boisterous ceremonial dance, allegorical nativity plays, and a folk drama on horseback which portrays the 1779 defeat of famed war chief Cuerno Verde. In a mixture of defiance and emulation, these events honor the historic relations of war and peace with the Comanches, the feared and admired warriors and traders of the south plains who once held the fate of all New Mexico in their hands. Lamadrid and Gandert provide historic, poetic, and photographic documentation of one of the richest legacies of the upper Rio Grande, a cultural crossroads known for its mestizo traditions and transcultural exchanges. A CD anthology of "Comanche" music accompanies a stunning selection of Gandert's photographs.
Author: Fenton Sadler Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd ISBN: 0719824230 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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It is 1866 and Colonel Thomas Sykes, late of the Confederate Army, is in Milledgeville gaol, waiting to be hanged, but he is pardoned and freed from prison, on condition that he helps find and release the president's niece, who is being held by a band of comancheros. This task proves to be far from straightforward and the colonel finds himself out of his depth when he is called upon to help assemble a number of Gatling guns which have been stolen from the army. Colonel Sykes will soon find himself caught in the middle of a fierce battle between the comancheros on the one hand and a troop of US Cavalry on the other. Will he succeed in his mission?
Author: Rudolfo Anaya Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 1538772205 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 283
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Full of “sensual dreams [and] unexplained phenomena,” this "best-known and most-respected" coming-of-age classic from the godfather of Chicano literature follows a young boy growing up in the llano, or plains, of post-World War II New Mexico, and the generous curandera who introduces him to the sacred side of life (New York Times). A PBS Great American Read · Winner of the Premio Quinto Sol Award · Recipient of the National Humanities Medal · With a new Foreword by author, playwright, and stage director Denise Chavez; a new Afterword by award-winning journalist and author Carmela Padilla; and a new essay by Manuel Muñoz, a Macarthur Fellow and winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. “I pulled this baby into the light of life . . . Only I will know his destiny.” Antonio Marez is six years old when the woman who helped usher him into the world comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Venerated by some as a miracle-worker—and disparaged by others as a bruja—Ultima, a curandera, or healer, opens Tony’s eyes to the spiritual roots of his culture, and introduces him to a magical, if sometimes frightening, new world: a realm in which she operates as a shaman. Suddenly, the ordinary challenges and triumphs of childhood become extraordinary. As Ultima shows Tony how to cure ailments, reverse curses, and restore peace to those who have lost it, he embarks on a singular quest, one in which he probes the family ties that bind and rend him, questions the Catholicism that shaped him, and explores the Spanish, Mexican, and Native American influences that informed not only his heritage, but his very sense of self. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who was there the day he was born . . . and will nurture the birth of his soul. A rich and wondrous story that reveals universal truths about the human condition and celebrates the beauty of Chicano culture. Includes a Reading Group Guide.
Author: Paul I. Wellman Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions ISBN: 1774644339 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 431
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The Trampling Herd is a record of the US cattle industry. From Cortez and the first cattle, on through the days of the Mexican vaquero to the modern cowbody and dude wrangler, Paul Wellman traced the history and personalities of the Western cattle country. He showed the changing West, dating from the barbed wire fences and the sheepmen, the new laws regarding water rights and he brings his tale down to the last ignominy, the dude ranches. Cattle crossed the Rio Grande into what is now the United States as early as 1580, forty years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In this colorful and comprehensive history of the cattle industry in the American West, we reach back to the early sixteenth century, when the first cattle were brought from Spain to Mexico. We then learn about the great cattle drives that began after the Civil War when Texans desperately needed to expand their markets, and about the dramatic changes in the cattle industry that followed. Colorful true characters like the unforgettable Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Billy the Kid also all make prominent appearances in this fascinating history.
Author: Kwame Shauku
Author: Kwame Shauku
Author: A. Gabriel Meléndez
Author: Francisco Fernández
Author: Richard Flint
Author: Robert Julyan
Author: Tammy Lorraine Huerta Fender
Author: Enrique R. Lamadrid
Author: Fenton Sadler
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Author: Paul I. Wellman