Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Transportation and Communication
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Texas Panhandle Frontier
Author: Frederick W. RathjenPublisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896723993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Texas Panhandle-its eastern edge descending sharply from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa Blanca, and Yellow House-is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. Long considered a crossroads of ancient civilizations, the twenty-six northernmost Texas counties lie on the southern reaches of the Great Plains, w...
The Significance of the Coronado Cuarto-centennial
Author: Railway Signaling and Communications
Author: Spanish Texas, 1519–1821
Author: Donald E. ChipmanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This revised and expanded edition of the authoritative history of Spanish Texas features significant new discoveries throughout. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 undercores the significance of the Spanish period in Texas history. Beginning with an overview of the land and its inhabitants before the arrival of Europeans, it covers major people and events from early exploration to the end of the colonial era. This new edition of Spanish Texas has been extensively revised and expanded to include a wealth of new discoveries. The opening chapter on Texas Indians reveals their high degree of independence from European influence. Other chapters incorporate new information on La Salle's Garcitas Creek colony and French influences in Texas, the destruction of the San Sabá mission and the Spanish punitive expedition to the Red River in the late 1750s, and eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms in the Americas. Drawing on new and original research, the authors shed new light on the experience of women in Spanish Texas across ethnic, racial, and class distinctions, including new revelations about their legal rights on the Texas frontier.
Travel and Communication
Author: Historic Sites Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
From Settler to Citizen
Author: Ross FrankPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251598
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Ross Frank has written a model study of New Mexico's Vecinos-a historical narrative as absorbing as it is illustrative of complex social processes."—Joyce Appleby, author of Inheriting the Revolution: The first Generation of Americans "This is a richly dense and sophisticated history of eighteenth-century New Mexico that focuses on the economic and cultural foundations of identity. Deftly reading subtle changes in material culture and the organization of space, Frank provides historians of the Americas with a fresh perspective on the impact of the Bourbon Reforms at the margins of empire."—Ramón Gutiérrez, author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office
Author: United States. General Land OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Knight Without Armor
Author: Félix Díaz AlmarázPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603447140
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
"Knight without Armor: Carlos E. Castaneda" is the definitive biography of one of the most honored yet unknown historians of the twentieth century. No other historian of Hispanic descent has matched Castaneda's success, with twelve books and nearly eighty articles published in three decades. He was also one of the most distinguished, having earned prestigious accolades such knighthood in the Vatican's Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and in Spain's Order of Isabel la Catolica as praise for his contributions to the study of Catholicism and the history of the Spanish borderlands in North America. Castaneda personified the ideal of knighthood as he overcame the limitations of financial burdens and ethnic discrimination. Rising out of humble origins in south Texas, he fought to improve school conditions in the barrios of San Antonio, and later served on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Committee on Fair Employment Practices during World War II. In 1939, he realized his dream of becoming a professor and historian. While teaching at the University of Texas, Castaneda specialized in Latin American history and focused on the history of Catholicism as the subject closest to his heart. His eight-volume work "Our Catholic Heritage in ""Texas"," 1519-1950" has been called the best work ever written on the Spanish colonial era in Texas. Until his death in 1958, Carlos Castaneda worked to educate others on the history of Hispanic Americans and their culture, and courageously sought equality for his people. Author Felix D. Almaraz, Jr. has compiled numerous writings, interviews and photographs from private collections as well as state and national archives in order to present a worthy tribute of a historian whose praise is long overdue.
Quest for Quivira
Author: Thomas E. ChavezPublisher: Western National Parks Association
ISBN: 9781877856051
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Spanish explorers and traders traveled throughout the Great Plains for nearly three centuries before William Becknell blazed the Santa Fe Trail in 1821. Thirty-four major expeditions are documented in this volume. Includes six maps and many black and white illustrations.