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Book Miera y Pacheco

Download or read book Miera y Pacheco written by John L. Kessell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera’s complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in Cantabria, Spain, to his sudden and unexplained appearance at Janos, Chihuahua, and his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one. In Miera y Pacheco, John L. Kessell explores each aspect of this Renaissance man’s life in the colony. Beginning with his marriage to the young descendant of a once-prominent New Mexican family, we see Miera transformed by his varied experiences into the quintessential Hispanic New Mexican. As he traveled to every corner of the colony and beyond, Miera gathered not only geographical, social, and political data but also invaluable information about the Southwest’s indigenous peoples. At the same time, Miera the artist was carving and painting statues and panels of the saints for the altar screens of the colony. Miera’s most ambitious surviving map resulted from his five-month ordeal as cartographer on the Domínguez-Escalante expedition to the Great Basin in 1776. Two years later, with the arrival of famed Juan Bautista de Anza as governor of New Mexico, Miera became a trusted member of Anza’s inner circle, advising him on civil, military, and Indian affairs. Miera’s maps and his religious art, represented here, have long been considered essential to the cultural history of colonial New Mexico. Now Kessell’s biography tells the rest of the story. Anyone with an interest in southwestern history, colonial New Mexico, or New Spain will welcome this study of Miera y Pacheco’s eventful life and times.

Book Land and Water Resources

Download or read book Land and Water Resources written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pass of the North

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Leland Sonnichsen
  • Publisher : Southern Methodist University Press
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Pass of the North written by Charles Leland Sonnichsen and published by Southern Methodist University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historia del Paso del Norte: cuatro siglos en el Río Bravo. Incluye índice. Texto en inglés.

Book Tribal Leaders List

Download or read book Tribal Leaders List written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summary of Awards

Download or read book Summary of Awards written by National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Environmental Systems and Resources and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Border

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  • Author : Leon Claire Metz
  • Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780875653648
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Border written by Leon Claire Metz and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen years in the making, this is a chronicle of the nearly two-thousand-mile international line between the United States and Mexico. It is an historical account largely through the eyes and experiences of government agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, business people, and wayfarers looking for a job. It is essentially the untold story of lines drawn in water, sand, and blood, of an intrepid, durable people, of a civilization whose ebb and flow of history is as significant as any in the world. Award-winning historian Leon Metz takes the reader from America's early westward expansion to today's awesome border problems of water rights, pollution, immigration, illegal aliens, and the massive effort of two nations attempting to pull together for a common cause.

Book Down the Santa F   Trail and Into Mexico

Download or read book Down the Santa F Trail and Into Mexico written by Susan Shelby Magoffin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexicanos

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  • Author : Manuel G. Gonzales
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2009-08-20
  • ISBN : 0253221250
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Mexicanos written by Manuel G. Gonzales and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States—a growing minority who are a vital presence in 21st-century America.

Book History of New Mexico

Download or read book History of New Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book X 33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator Vehicle Program  CA UT WA

Download or read book X 33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator Vehicle Program CA UT WA written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise  Us Federal Highway Administration Regulation   Fhwa   2018 Edition

Download or read book Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise Us Federal Highway Administration Regulation Fhwa 2018 Edition written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This document proposes to revise the Federal regulations on the Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise. The FHWA seeks to clarify certain definitions, the applicability of this regulation, certain analysis requirements, and the use of Federal funds for noise abatement measures. In addition, the proposed regulation would include a screening tool and the latest state of the practice on addressing highway traffic noise. This book contains: - The complete text of the Procedures for Abatement of Highway Traffic Noise and Construction Noise (US Federal Highway Administration Regulation) (FHWA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Book The Mescalero Apaches

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  • Author : C. L. Sonnichsen
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2015-04-09
  • ISBN : 0806148934
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Mescalero Apaches written by C. L. Sonnichsen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Webb Hodge remarked that the Eastern Apache tribe called the Mescaleros were “never regarded as so warlike” as the Apaches of Arizona. But the Mescaleros’ history is one of hardship and oppression alternating with wars of revenge. They were friendly to the Spaniards until victimized, and friendly to Americans until they were betrayed again. For three hundred years Mescaleros fought the Spaniards and Mexicans. They fought Americans for forty more, before subsiding into lethargy and discouragement. Only since 1930 have the Mescaleros been able to make tribal progress. C. L. Sonnichsen tells the story of the Mescalero Apaches from the earliest records to the modern day, from the Indian's point of view. In early days the Mescaleros moved about freely. Their principal range was between the Río Grande and the Pecos in New Mexico, but they hunted into the Staked Plains and southward into Mexico. They owned nothing and everything. Today the Mescaleros are American citizens and own their reservation in the Tularosa country of New Mexico. While the Mescalero Apaches still struggle to retain their traditions and bridge the gap between their old life and the new, their people have made amazing progress.

Book New Mexico s Spanish Livestock Heritage

Download or read book New Mexico s Spanish Livestock Heritage written by William W. Dunmire and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of livestock and its history focuses not only on the impact of horses and cattle, but also the wide variety of animals that shaped life and culture in New Mexico for the Spaniards, Natives, and Anglos who lived in or settled the region"--

Book The Rediscovery of North America

Download or read book The Rediscovery of North America written by Barry Lopez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago an Italian whose name, translated into English, meant Christopher Dove, came to America and began a process not of discovery, but incursion -- "a ruthless, angry search for wealth" that continues to the present day. This provocative and superbly written book gives a true assessment of Columbus's legacy while taking the first steps toward its redemption. Even as he draws a direct line between the atrocities of Spanish conquistadors and the ongoing pillage of our lands and waters, Barry Lopez challenges us to adopt an ethic that will make further depredations impossible. The Rediscovery of North America is a ringingly persuasive call for us, at long last, to make this country our home.

Book The States and Their Indian Citizens

Download or read book The States and Their Indian Citizens written by Theodore W. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: