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  • Arizona Across 400 Years

    Stories From a Colorful Past

    These fourteen non-fictional accounts relate to Arizona from the time of the first visit by Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540 to the frustrated claim of a would-be homesteader in the early 1900s. Between these we meet a series of military visitors, the railroad dreams of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, adventures and encounters by early-day travelers, and ... Leer más

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  • New Mexico Episodes

    Stories from a Colorful Past

    These episodes are non-fiction accounts relating to New Mexico from the earliest visit by a priest, Fray Marcos de Niza, sent by the Viceroy of New Spain in 1539, to the unwelcome intrusion of an enemy saboteur in World War I. Between these extremes we meet a witness who recalls details of an abandoned dwelling whose owner lived there two hundred years earlier, newspaper accounts of a shoot-out at ... Leer más

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  • Ghost Towns of the Southwest

    Your Guide to the Historic Mining Camps & Ghost Towns of Arizona and New Mexico

    A traveler's guide to ghost towns and historic villages of Arizona and New Mexico, featuring maps, historical background, and color photos.The Southwest is home to an enticing array of ghost towns and historic villages. Once-bustling mining camps, frontier towns, and railroad towns stand today as reminders of the glory days of mining and the Wild West. Historic buildings, abandoned schoolhouses, ... Leer más

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  • Big Wonderful Thing

    A History of Texas

    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and ... Leer más

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  • Texas Blood

    Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands

    In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family.What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, ... Leer más

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  • Coronado's Children

    Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest

    Series Libro 3 - Barker Texas History Center Series
    "This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas." — Basic Texas BooksWritten in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the ... Leer más

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  • Kings of Texas

    The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    de Don Graham ...
    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Leer más

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  • Road to California: The Search for a Southern Overland Route, 1540-1848

    de Harlan Hague ...
    The earliest European perception of California was of a wonderful land of mystery and plenty, a Terrestrial Paradise. California would become a magnet for generations of people seeking the good life.The first foreign settlements in California were planted by Spaniards in the late eighteenth century. Padres and soldiers on Mexico's northern frontier searched for and opened an overland passage, ... Leer más

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  • Historic Native Peoples of Texas

    An incredibly detailed account of Indigenous lifeways during the initial rounds of European exploration in south-central North America.Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and ... Leer más

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  • Little Known Tales in California History

    de Alton Pryor ...
    A lost Spanish galleon still lies on the bottom of the Salton Sea, loaded with iron chests.Pegleg Smith's lost gold mine is still waiting for someone to find.Is Joaquin Murrieta only the myth of an early newspaper writer?The latest news on ishi, the last Yahi Indian. ... Leer más

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  • American Indian Tribes of the Southwest

    Series series Men-at-Arms
    This focuses on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America.It was in the Southwest – modern Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California and other neighboring states – that the first major clashes took place between 16th-century Spanish conquistadors and the indigenous peoples of North America. Despite nearly 500 years of white settlement and pressure, the ... Leer más

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  • Turbulent Taos

    de Den Galbraith ...
    Revolutions, native conspiracies and subsequent insurrections, filthy mountain men sleeping on the dirt and wrestling with grizzlies, radical priests, belligerent American soldiers, betrayal, violence, early forms of commerce, and other enthralling accounts are part of this small New Mexico town’s history. Complete with illustrations and archived photographs, “Turbulent Taos” is Den Galbraith’s ... Leer más

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