Rio Grande history
Author : Rio Grande Historical Collections
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Rio Grande Historical Collections
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Rio Grande Historical Collections
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : New Mexico
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Calendar illustrated with photographs selected from the Rio Grande Historical Collections and the Hobson-Huntsinger University Archives.
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Rio Grande Valley
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Author : Sandra Wagner & Carol Ann Wetherill
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467137170
Home to long-forgotten mining towns, defunct fisheries and neglected cabins, the turbulent headwaters of the Upper Rio Grande conceal a largely unknown history. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys brought their legendary Texas swing to Crooked Creek Canyon's S Lazy U barn dance, while a comedy of errors unfolded around the ranch's secret still. Obstetrician Dr. MaryAnn Faunce, the daughter of an abolitionist and suffragette, made house calls as a real-life Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Rough-and-tumble miners drawn to Creede's silver boom found accommodations ranging from the primitive to the opulent, though none as enduring as the Creede Hotel. Upper Rio Grande native Carol Ann Wetherill and author Sandra Wagner preserve and celebrate the pioneering spirit that defined the early days in this obscure corner of southern Colorado.
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Page : 357 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Hispanic Americans
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Author : Henry Granjon
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : William S. Kiser
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1603442960
The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe, he left the New Mexico territory undefended, and it fell to forces under Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny in a bloodless occupation. In the ensuing two decades, the southern portion of New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley played a prominent role in the conflict that overtook the infant American territory. In Turmoil on the Rio Grande, William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-and-tumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing U.S. empire of the West. Kiser carefully limns in the culture into which the U.S. soldiers inserted themselves before going on to describe the armed forces that arrived and the actions in which they were involved. From the thirty-minute Battle of Brazito—in which the greenhorn recruits of the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, led by Col. Alexander Doniphan, vanquished Mexican troops through superior technology—to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the international boundary disputes, and the Confederate victory at Fort Fillmore, Kiser deftly describes the actions that made the Mesilla Valley important in American history.
Author : Frank Cushman Pierce
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1917
Category : History
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A Brief History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley by Frank Cushman Pierce, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Ryan H. Edgington
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803238444
Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II—as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the cold war but also by regional history, culture, and traditions.
Author : Lower Rio Grande Valley Historical Society (Harlingen, Tex.)
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
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