The Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande
Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher : Louis F. Aulbach
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0976521342
Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher : Louis F. Aulbach
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0976521342
Author : Mary S. Black
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1623495091
Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy Bean Visitors’ Center and Botanical Garden, Seminole Canyon State Park, and the Briscoe-Garner Museum in Uvalde, along with ghost towns, ancient rock art, sweeping vistas, and unique flora and fauna, are just a few of the features that make this distinctive section of the Lone Star State an enticing destination. Now, veteran writer, blogger, and educator Mary S. Black serves up the best of this region’s special adventures and secret treasures. From the Frio to Del Rio is chock-full of helpful maps, colorful photography, and tips on where to stay, what to do, and how to get there. In addition there are details for 10 scenic routes, 3 historic forts and 7 state parks and other recreation areas.
Author : James Burr Harrison Macrae
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1623496411
Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms. While full understanding of the meaning of these images is abstruse, archaeologists and other scholars have identified what they believe to be patterns and religious themes, mixed with what could be figures and objects from everyday life in the local hunter-gatherer culture as it existed in the region centuries before the arrival of colonizing Europeans. Although interpretation of these pictographs remains controversial, in Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography, James Burr Harrison Macrae contributes to the beginnings of a syntactic “grammar” for these images that can be applied in diverse contexts without direct reference to any particular interpretation. “The strength of structural-iconographic analysis,” Macrae writes, “is that it relies on repetitive patterns rather than idiosyncratic information, such as trying to make broad inferences from one or only a few sites.” Pecos River Style Rock Art offers the framework of an empirical methodology for understanding these ancient artworks.
Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher : Louis F. Aulbach
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0976521334
Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher : Louis F. Aulbach
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780976521327
Author : Verne Huser
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585443697
Explores the landscape, history, geology, and recreational opportunities afforded by the rivers of Texas, presenting information about each river's size, location, tributaries, discharge, and special sites.
Author : Stephen Hartley Daniel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1603446532
Texas and whitewater. Who knew? According to veteran paddler Steve Daniel, one doesn't have to be an outdoors expert to find whitewater fun and adventure in the Lone Star State. Sometimes all that's needed is a little rain and perseverance - and this handy guide to Texas rivers and creeks with the greatest prospects for whitewater.
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Great Plains
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Author : Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781585442591
Boyd seed a way that hunter-gatherer artists expressed their belief systems; provided a mechanism for social and environmental adaptation; and acted as agents in the social, economic, and ideological affairs of the community. She offers detailed information gleaned from the art regarding the nature of the Lower Pecos cosmos, ritual practices involving the use of sacramental and medicinal plants, and hunter-gatherer lifeways.
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category : Storms
ISBN :