Author : José Griego y Maestas
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The "cuentos" or tales of this bilingual collection evoke the rich tradition of the early Spanish settlers and their descendants, relating the magic and events of everyday life in Colorado and the Hispanic villages of New Mexico.
Author : Alfred Avila
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781558856370
Traditional Mexican stories tell of ghosts, evil spirits, devils, curses, and supernatural forces.
Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493028006
A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened—and still do happen—in the collective back yard of the Southwestern states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from cattle rustlers to runaway trains. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, and Texas. Set in the American Southwest's historic towns and sparsely populated expanses, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152019587
Coyote insists the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in diaster.
Author : Jack Myers
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741424797
Fictionalized memoir which explores the dynamics of being raised in a declining Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Pint-sized and four-eyed, little Jimmy Morris is near the bottom of the food chain in his working class "streetcar suburb" of Kings Cross. He's a dreamer, schemer, schoolyard scrapper, secret lover of books, and classroom clown ... a kid you can't decide whether to hug or to slap. Meanwhile, the conformity of the 1950s is yielding to those turbulent '60s. Yes, the times they definitely were a changin' with Kings Cross in the eye of the societal storm.
Author : George Wythe Baylor
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"From 1899 to 1906, Colonel Baylor wrote fifty-two articles for the El Paso Daily Herald. The articles, ably edited and annotated by historian Thompson, vary from accounts of the Civil War in El Paso and the Mesilla Valley, to fights with Comanches in North Texas and Victorio's Apaches in the mountains of Chihuahua. Baylor also recalls the ill-fated 1850-1851 Parker H. French Expedition and life in the California gold fields. Also included are biographical sketches of "Don Santiago" Magoffin and Baylor's controversial older brother, Col. John Robert Baylor." "Some of Baylor's most valuable writings are his Civil War recollections. These include accounts of the surrender of Federal forces at St. Agustin Springs, New Mexico in 1861, the massacre of Lt. Reuben E. Mays and fourteen Confederates deep in the arid expanses of the Big Bend, his service as senior aide to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Red River Campaign, and an amazingly objective account of how he came to kill Gen. John A. Wharton at the Fannin Hotel in Houston in April 1865."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Lamar Muse
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Airlines
ISBN : 9781571687395
When Southwest Airlines made its inaugural flight on June 18, 1971, experts predicted that the company wouldn't last more than ninety days. Some thirty-two years later, Southwest is the beleaguered airline Industry's only profitable major company-Money magazine has named Southwest Airlines' common stock the premier Investment of the last thirty years. Now Southwest's founding president and CEO (1970-78], Lamar Muse, offers a definitive account of the airline's scrappy beginning. The principles and practices that assured the company's success were, largely, Muse's own. Those same winning strategies continue to sustain the company through the market's ups and downs, In Southwest Passage, Muse delivers plain facts and informed opinions that replace convoluted outsider accounts of the company's history. For anyone wondering how the air Industry can renew itself, how Southwest achieved its dominance, or how business really works, this unique story has the answers.
Author : Richard Young
Publisher : August House Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This collection of tales will bring its readers plenty of delicious shivers.
Author : John Green
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0359941397
An eclectic collection of short stories set in the Southwestern United States.The stories in this anthology take place in many eras from the times of the 'old west'to the present day. None are stereotype shoot-em up slapping leather, punching cows wild west stories. Written by several well-known authors, they run a gamut from literary fiction, to science fiction and beyond. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION THE TRAIN FROM TUCUMCARI John F. Green THE STRANGERS James Pyles KADEE ROSE P.A. O'Neil SHADOWS OF THE ANASAZI Gabriella Balcom THE VOICE IN THE WIND Jay Crowley GRANDMOTHER OF THE DESERT Edward C. Hartshorn ------------------------- APPENDIX Brief biographies of the contributing authors.
Author : Sean O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781885211583
With its vast vistas, splendid sunsets, and rich history, the American Southwest has always inspired superb writing. "Travelers' Tales Southwest" features a choice selection of some of the best by Tony Hillerman, David Roberts, Barbara Kingsolver, Alex Schoumatoff, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others. Maps.
