Author: John Russell BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Personal Narrative of Explorations & Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua
Author: John Russell BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua
Author: John Russell BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
Author: Susan Shelby MagoffinPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281165
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey and admitted, "This thing of marrying is not what it is cracked up to be." Valuable as a social and historical record of her encounters—she met Zachary Taylor and was agreeably disappointed to find him disheveled but kindly—her journal is equally important as a chronicle of her growing intelligence, experience, and strength, her lost illusions and her coming to terms with herself.
... History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530-1888
Author: Hubert Howe BancroftPublisher:
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3477
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Santa Rita del Cobre
Author: Christopher J. HuggardPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 160732153X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
An account of the rise and fall of a mining town over two centuries, including photos: “An excellent story of the people and their community.” ―New Mexico Historical Review The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans, successively, mined copper for more than two hundred years in Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 after an Apache man led the Spanish to the native copper deposits, miners at the site followed industry developments in the nineteenth century to create a network of underground mines. In the early twentieth century these works became part of the Chino Copper Company’s open-pit mining operations—operations that would overtake Santa Rita by 1970. In Santa Rita del Cobre, Christopher Huggard and Terrence Humble detail these developments with in-depth explanations of mining technology, and describe the effects on and consequences for the workers, the community, and the natural environment. Originally known as El Cobre, the mining-military camp of Santa Rita del Cobre ultimately became the company town of Santa Rita, which after World War II evolved into an independent community. From the town’s beginnings to its demise, its mixed-heritage inhabitants from Mexico and the United States cultivated rich family, educational, religious, social, and labor traditions. Extensive archival photographs, many taken by officials of the Kennecott Copper Corporation, accompany the text, providing an important visual and historical record of a town swallowed up by the industry that created it.
Cyclopaedia of American Literature Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations
Author: Evert Augustus DuyckinckPublisher: New York : C. Scribner
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Forging the Tortilla Curtain
Author: Thomas TorransPublisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875652313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.
Books by American Travellers and Explorers from 1846 to 1900
Author: Frederick Samuel DellenbaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. III
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description