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  • Atrisco to Zena Lona: A Snappy Survey of Selected Albuquerque Street Names

    de Judy Nickell ...
    Want to know something about the story behind Albuquerque’s street names—Who are they named for and why?How do you pronounce the names?What do they mean?What’s the largest street name in Albuquerque’s history?Many people were interviewed for this book; research began when the author was a columnist for a local newspaper. People would call to ask for the origin of one street name or another. This ... Leer más

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    Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the ... Leer más

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  • Mesa of Sorrows

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    A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While ... Leer más

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  • Oklahoma

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    The product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial.From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the ... Leer más

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  • The WPA Guide to Arizona

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    Series series WPA Guides Digital Library
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Leer más

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  • Every Sun That Rises

    Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake

    Edición de Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad ...
    “What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman, boat builder, farmer, fishing and hunting camp operator, guide, commercial hunter, trapper, raftsman, moonshiner, oil field worker, water well ... Leer más

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  • Keller

    Series series Images of America
    In the late 1800s, pioneers settled in the northeast Texas region of Cross Timbers known as Double Springs. In 1875, Isaac Roberts, a farmer who owned more than 600 acres, left a parcel of his land to A. G. Roberts, who then sold the right-of-way to the Texas and Pacific Railway for $25. A new town was formed, and in 1882, it was named Keller in honor of the railroad foreman who was instrumental ... Leer más

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  • Not Without Honor

    The Life of John H. Reagan

    John H. Reagan was one of the most important figures in Texas history; this was the first biography of him to be published. Reagan, who was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1818, came to Texas twenty-one years later—while Texas was still a republic—and stayed to play many major roles in its later economic and political development.In this excellent biography, Ben H. Procter not only re-creates ... Leer más

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  • Early Bisbee

    Series series Images of America
    Before Bisbee became a bustling mining camp, it was a haven to Native Americans for centuries. However, their presence brought the intrusion of army scouts and prospectors into the Mule Mountains. The coincidental discovery of vast mineral wealth at the future site of Bisbee permanently affixed the fate of the land forever. Rising from the remote desert was a dynamic mining city, a city that grew ... Leer más

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    Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transformation of the Trans-Pecos

    Series Libro 13 - Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series
    Clayton Wheat Williams—West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historian—was a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region. His life spanned a dynamic period in Texas history when automobiles replaced horse-drawn wagons, electricity replaced steam power in the oilfields, and barren and virtually worthless ranch land became ... Leer más

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  • Twenty-one Texas Short Stories

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    This is a splendid collection of stories about Texas by Texans—stories that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.Authors in this volume:Dillon AndersonBarry BenefieldCharles CarverMargaret CousinsChester T. CrowellEugene CunninghamJ. Frank DobieFred GipsonWilliam GoyenO. HenrySylvan KarchmerHarry Kidd, Jr.Mary King... ... Leer más

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  • Powering a City

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