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Book Coronado on the Turquoise Trail

Download or read book Coronado on the Turquoise Trail written by Herbert Eugene Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coronado

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert E. Bolton
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2015-02-01
  • ISBN : 0826337236
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Coronado written by Herbert E. Bolton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Eugene Bolton’s classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body of Indian allies, Coronado and his men—the first Europeans to explore what are now Arizona and New Mexico—continued on to the buffalo-covered plains of Texas and into Oklahoma and Kansas. With documents in hand, Bolton personally followed the path of the Coronado expedition, providing readers with unsurpassed storytelling and meticulous research.

Book The Turquoise Trail

Download or read book The Turquoise Trail written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains writings by: Mary Austin ; S. Omar Barker ; Witter Bynner ; Willa Cather ; Badger Clark ; Alice Corbin ; Arthur Davison Ficke ; John Gould Fletcher ; John Galsworthy ; Marsden Hartley ; Paul Horgan ; Willard Johnson ; Henry Herbert Knibbs ; ALfred Kreymborg ; D.H. Lawrence ; Maurice Lesemann ; Janet Lewis ; Vachel Lindsay ; Haniel Long ; Mabel Dodge Luhan ; Edgar Lee Masters ; Harriet Monroe ; Margaret Pond ; Eugene Manlove Rhodes ; Lynn Riggs ; James Rorty ; Carl Sandburg ; William Haskell Simpson ; Herbert J. Spinden ; Lucy Sturges ; N. Howard Thorp ; John Curtis Underwood ; Stanley Vestal ; Eda Lou Walton ; Glenway Wescott ; Yvor Winters ; Edith Wyatt.

Book Old Spanish Trail

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leroy R. Hafen
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803272613
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Old Spanish Trail written by Leroy R. Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Främont, and Kit Carson; with packers, home seekers, and mail couriers; and with horse thieves and enslavers of Indian women and children.

Book Documents of the Coronado Expedition  1539   1542

Download or read book Documents of the Coronado Expedition 1539 1542 written by and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate transcriptions and modern English translations of the documents, including seven never before published and seven others never before available in English. The volume includes a general introduction and explanatory notes at the beginning of each document.

Book Coronado National Memorial

Download or read book Coronado National Memorial written by Rose Houk and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey with the conquistadors as they discover the beauty and bounty of the landscape in southern Arizona. The gold they sought could not compare to the biological diversity of the area then and today. Rare species, their habitat in the memorial, and their curious activities highlight this book, along with tidbits of history, geology, and the character of the area.

Book Pueblo Indian Agriculture

Download or read book Pueblo Indian Agriculture written by James A. Vlasich and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronological account of Pueblo Indian agriculture, examining its refinements, challenges and changes up to the present, detailing its sophisticated irrigation systems and crop production.

Book Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands

Download or read book Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands written by Herbert Eugene Bolton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1974-06-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the twentieth century, Herbert Eugene Bolton opened up a new area of study in American history: the Spanish Borderlands. His research took him to the archives of Mexico, where he found a wealth of unpublished, even unknown, material that shed new light on the early history of North America, particularly the American Southwest. The seventeen essays in this book, edited by John Francis Bannon, illustrate the importance of his contributions to American historiography and provide a solid foundation for students of Borderlands history.

Book What Happened  An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever  4 volumes

Download or read book What Happened An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever 4 volumes written by John E. Findling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 1455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and highly readable collection of essays highlights 50 important events that changed the course of American history. What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever is designed to introduce beginning U.S. history students and lay readers to the most significant events in the nation's history. More than that, it also will give readers insight into why a particular event is important. This book consists of 50 chapters in four volumes, each dealing with a critically important event in American history from the 17th century to the present. Each chapter includes a factual essay on the subject prepared by John Findling or Frank Thackeray. The factual material is augmented with an interpretive essay on the same subject, written by a specialist in the field. Through this juxtaposition, readers can learn not only about the who, what, and where of an event, but also why it is important in the sweep of American history.

Book Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century written by John E. Findling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the settlement of the earliest peoples in the Americas to the close of the seventeenth century, enormous changes took place in what was to become the continental United States. To help students understand this sweep of history, this unique resource provides detailed description and expert analysis of the ten most important events through the seventeenth century: First Encounters, c. 40,000 BCE - 1492 AD; The Expedition of Coronado, 1540-1542; The Founding of St. Augustine, 1565; Early English Colonization Efforts, c. 1584-1630; Early European-Native American Encounters, 1607-1637; The Introduction of Slavery into America, 1619; The Surrender of New Amsterdam, 1664; King Philip's War, 1675-1676; The Glorious Revolution in America, 1688-1689; and The Salem Witch Trials, 1692. Each event is dealt with in a separate chapter. The examination goes beyond traditional textbook treatment of history by considering the immediate and far-reaching ramifications of each event. Each chapter features an introductory essay that presents the facts of the event in a clear, chronological manner that makes complex history understandable. This essay is followed by an interpretive essay, written by a recognized authority in the field in a style designed to appeal to a general readership and promote critical thinking, that places the event in a broader context and assesses it in terms of its political, economic, sociocultural, and international significance. With an illustration and an annotated bibliography for each event, a glossary of names, events, and terms of the period, a timeline of important events in American history through the seventeenth century, Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century is an ideal addition to the high school, community college, and undergraduate reference shelf, as well as excellent supplementary reading in social studies and American history courses.

Book   coma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ward Alan Minge
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780826313010
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book coma written by Ward Alan Minge and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.

Book The Journal of American Indian Family Research   Vol  IV  No  4     1983

Download or read book The Journal of American Indian Family Research Vol IV No 4 1983 written by and published by HISTREE. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Indians of the United States

Download or read book A History of the Indians of the United States written by Angie Debo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not taken root. This book is an in-depth historical survey of the Indians of the United States, including the Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska, which isolates and analyzes the problems which have beset these people since their first contacts with Europeans. Only in the light of this knowledge, the author points out, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated. In the book are described the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossession of the Indians by colonial expansion, their involvement in imperial rivalries, their beginning relations with the new American republic, and the ensuing century of war and encroachment. The most recent aspects of government Indian policy are also detailed the good and bad administrative practices and measures to which the Indians have been subjected and their present situation. Miss Debo's style is objective, and throughout the book the distinct social environment of the Indians is emphasized—an environment that is foreign to the experience of most white men. Through ignorance of that culture and life style the results of non-Indian policy toward Indians have been centuries of blundering and tragedy. In response to Indian history, an enlightened policy must be formulated: protection of Indian land, vocational and educational training, voluntary relocation, encouragement of tribal organization, recognition of Indians' social groupings, and reliance on Indians' abilities to direct their own lives. The result of this new policy would be a chance for Indians to live now, whether on their own land or as adjusted members of white society. Indian history is usually highly specialized and is never recorded in books of general history. This book unifies the many specialized volumes which have been written about their history and culture. It has been written not only for persons who work with Indians or for students of Indian culture, but for all Americans of good will.

Book The Books of the Colorado River   the Grand Canyon

Download or read book The Books of the Colorado River the Grand Canyon written by Francis Peloubet Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-known bibliography describes the most siginficant works written about the Grand Canyon region.

Book Kepler s Somnium

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johannes Kepler
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486432823
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Kepler s Somnium written by Johannes Kepler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a scientific treatise on lunar astronomy and a science-fiction story about a voyage to the moon, Kepler's Somnium went unrecognized for centuries. This edition presents a full translation from the original Latin.

Book The Turquoise Trail

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  • Author : Laurie Evans Frantz
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0738596558
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book The Turquoise Trail written by Laurie Evans Frantz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Turquoise Trail is a quirky, alternative road stretching between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Before horses trod the route, it linked three Native American pueblos. The earliest mining activity in North America took place along the trail; local Native Americans mined a huge vein of turquoise that was visible on the surface. In the age of horses and wagons, the road ran through dusty Wild West towns, mining districts, and mountains, which were once roamed by thousands of prospectors with dreams of finding the mother lode. When mining became unprofitable, the inhabitants packed whatever they could into their cars and pulled out, seeking employment elsewhere. But a time came when people realized there was still potential in these old ghost towns. The buildings that once housed miners and the businesses that supported them are now occupied by art galleries, boutiques, and modern pioneers. The route still has a flavor of the Wild West, but instead of cowboys and miners, it now attracts motorcycle enthusiasts, movie crews, and day-trippers who appreciate authenticity and local color"--Back cover.

Book Epics of Empire and Frontier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Celia López-Chávez
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 0806155221
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Epics of Empire and Frontier written by Celia López-Chávez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia de la Nueva México, a historical epic about the Spanish subjugation of the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. In Epics of Empire and Frontier—a deft cultural, ethnohistorical reading of these two colonial epics, both of which loom large in the canon of Spanish literature—Celia López-Chávez reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier. Employing historical and literary analysis that goes from the global to the regional, and from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, López-Chávez considers Ercilla and Villagrá not only as writers but as citizens and subjects of the powerful Spanish empire. Although frontiers of conquest have always been central to the regional histories of the Americas, this is the first work to approach the subject through epic poetry and the main events in the poets’ lives. López-Chávez also investigates the geographical spaces and landmarks where the conquests of Chile and New Mexico took place, the natural landscape of each area as both the Spanish and the natives saw it, and the characteristics of the expeditions in both regions, with special attention to the violence of the invasions. In her discussion of law, geography, and frontier, López-Chávez carries the poems’ firsthand testimony on the political, cultural, and social resistance of indigenous people into present-day debates about regional and national identity. An interdisciplinary, comparative postcolonial interpretation of the history found in two poetic narratives of conquest, Epics of Empire and Frontier brings fresh understanding to the role that poetry plays in regional and national memory and culture.