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Book The American Southwest

Download or read book The American Southwest written by Lynn Irwin Perrigo and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rough Guide to Southwest USA

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Southwest USA written by Greg Ward and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Southwest USA is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Southwest USA has to offer. Discover the spectacular extremes of landscape; from scenic national parks, ancient sites of New Mexico and Arizona's Grand Canyon and Apache trail, to unique cities like Santa Fe, vintage Americana, Wild West towns and the lively nightlife of Las Vegas. The guide is packed with reliable, up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in the Southwest USA, recommended restaurants and bars in Southwest USA and tips on the best shopping and festivals in Southwest USA for all budgets. You'll find comprehensive coverage of the whole of New Mexico & Arizona, all of Utah's fabulous national parks, Las Vegas in Nevada and much of Southwest Colorado. The guide features historical descriptions of the abandoned ruins of the Ancestral Puebloans, today's Native Americans, Southwest movie locations, and adobe architecture plus expert tips for hikes and other outdoor activities. The Rough Guide to Southwest USA is the perfect companion to one of the best road trip destinations in America with the clearest maps of any guide. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Southwest USA.

Book Ancient Life in the American Southwest

Download or read book Ancient Life in the American Southwest written by Edgar Lee Hewett and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest

Download or read book Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest written by David J. Weber and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in Southwest Collection.

Book THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST   ITS PEOPLE AND CULTURES

Download or read book THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST ITS PEOPLE AND CULTURES written by Lynn I. Perrigo and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The People

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book The People written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the Native peoples of the American Southwest.

Book Culture in the American Southwest

Download or read book Culture in the American Southwest written by Keith L. Bryant and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.

Book The American Southwest

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  • Author : Lynn Irwin Perrigo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The American Southwest written by Lynn Irwin Perrigo and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Desert Time

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  • Author : Diana Kappel-Smith
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780816514328
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Desert Time written by Diana Kappel-Smith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her journey through the deserts of the American Southwest, discussing botany, desert zoology, the people who make the desert their home, and the meaning of her odyssey

Book The American Southwest

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  • Author : Nancy Zimmerman
  • Publisher : Compass America Guides
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9781878867797
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book The American Southwest written by Nancy Zimmerman and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the Compass American Guides series covers some of America's most legendary landscapes. Six southwestern writers guide us through plateaus and deserts in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and West Texas, and introduce us to the area's distinctive blend of Native American, Mexican, and Anglo cultures.

Book Ancient Life in the American Southwest

Download or read book Ancient Life in the American Southwest written by Edgar Lee Hewett and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Savages to Subjects

Download or read book From Savages to Subjects written by Robert H. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program attempted to change just about every aspect of indigenous life. Emphasizing the effect of the missions on native populations, demographic patterns, economics, and socio-cultural change, this path-breaking work fills a major gap in the history of the Southwest.

Book First Impressions

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  • Author : David J. Weber
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-22
  • ISBN : 030023175X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book First Impressions written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sites This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Book Four Corners USA

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  • Author : Jim Turner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-08
  • ISBN : 9781940322223
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Four Corners USA written by Jim Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Way out on the Colorado Plateau, two lines cross at right angles, forming the borders of four states. You can stand on this spot and be in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all at the same time. This book covers the area roughly 150 miles around that point, a land of fantastic rock formations, ancient dwellings, and diverse cultures. Multiple national parks and monuments have been set aside to preserve the Four Corners' wonders. Nature's rainbow of colors paints these vast landscapes and barren badlands where sandstone rock sculptures grace majestic canyons. Join us in a tour of these remarkable places with 126 brilliant photographs to get a feel for this unforgettable land and its people.

Book Ancient Life in the American Southwest

Download or read book Ancient Life in the American Southwest written by Edgar Lee Hewett and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Juan de O  ate s Colony in the Wilderness

Download or read book Juan de O ate s Colony in the Wilderness written by Robert McGeagh and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation before the establishment of the European colonies on the West Coast of America, Spanish explorers and friars were trudging the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest in search of souls, riches and glory. By 1598, Juan de Onate had established the first permanent settlement in the Southwest, twenty-two years before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony. The story of this colony, the explorations, the defeats and successes, the hopes blighted and the hopes fulfilled are told in this concise history of the era. * * * * Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Robert McGeagh received his early education in England before emigrating to the United States at the age of nineteen. He was educated at St. Mary's, Techny, Illinois and at St. Thomas, Denver, Colorado. He received a Masters degree in history from California State University at Fullerton and the PhD in Latin American history from the University of New Mexico. He has published articles on colonial New Mexico and Latin America and has been the recipient of Fulbright and OAS research awards in Uruguay and Argentina.

Book The Struggle for Water

Download or read book The Struggle for Water written by Wendy Nelson Espeland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 50 years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in central Arizona. While the dam would bring valuable water to an arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians from their ancestral home. This is the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted project.