Download or read book New Mexico Powder Keg written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gunsmith 401 When his Darley Arabian horse, Eclipse, was stolen, Clint Adams saw red. But no sooner had he set out in pursuit of the thieves, than he found himself up to his neck in even bigger trouble. A bunch of mad revolutionaries were set on wrenching New Mexico away from the United States, and it seemed that The Gunsmith—with a little help from bounty hunter Jarred Hall—was the only man who could stop them. Before long Clint was seeing red again . . . only this time it was the stark crimson of spilled blood.
Download or read book New Mexico Treasure Tales written by W.C. Jameson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Veteran treasure hunter and folklorist W.C. Jameson presetns twenty-six colorful, inriguing and mysterious stories about fortunes lost and found in the mountains and deserts of New Mexico.
Download or read book New Mexico written by Joseph P. Sánchez and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory’s admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state’s modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state’s historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation’s crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.
Download or read book Commerce of the Prairies written by Josiah Gregg and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregg's book Commerce of the Prairies, published in two volumes in 1844, was an account of his time spent as a trader on the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1840 and includes commentary on the geography, botany, geology, and culture of New Mexico. Gregg wrote about local people and described Indian culture and artifacts. Volume 1 of 2.
Download or read book Gregg s Commerce of the Prairies Or the Journal of a Sante Fe Trader 1831 1839 written by Josiah Gregg and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josiah Gregg's 1844 Commerce of the Prairies, based largely upon his own journal entries, describes the plant, animal, and mineral resources of the area, while also providing unique information on the Native American tribes of the region.
Download or read book Billy the Kid s Last Ride written by John A. Aragon and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orphaned, bucktoothed, New York Irish boy speaks Spanish and wears a Mexican sombrero. He claims his name is William Bonney. His amigos call him “Kid.” To newspapers in the New Mexico Territory and across America, he is “Billy the Kid.” William was among the bravest of the McSween alliance in the Lincoln County War. He was lucky, too—lucky enough to shoot his way out when the rest of his faction was cornered and slaughtered in battle. He was later captured and condemned to hang, but he killed his guards and escaped. Now, William has one last chance. He heads into Old Mexico with his lover, the fierce Apache maiden Tzoeh. There he hopes to start a new life, live in peace and obscurity, and be forgotten. But powerful Anglo ranchers plot to use William’s hot temper, unmatched courage, consummate loyalty to his amigos, and superb skill with a six-gun for their own ends.
Download or read book Report of Investigations written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Redevelopment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Redevelopment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1: Considers Federal employment aid programs to economically depressed urban areas. Feb. 3 hearing was held in Boston, Mass.; Feb. 9 hearing was held in Johnstown, Pa.; Feb. 10 hearing was held in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; pt. 2: Feb. 24 hearing was held in Benld, Ill.; Feb. 25 hearing was held in Johnston City, Ill.; Feb. 27 hearing was held in Rosiclare, Ill.
Download or read book Heard Amid the Guns written by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carmichael captures the anguish and the wonder of war in flashes of colour, humour, and gems of human detail mined from letters, diaries, interviews, [and] her own family history." —Halifax Chronicle Herald A rich and varied tapestry of the First World War, highlighting the personal stories of over 150 men and women from across North America who served overseas. After receiving a bundle of worn letters written by her late grandfather George “Black Jack” Vowel during the First World War, journalist Jacqueline Carmichael became fascinated with the daily realities and personal stories of those who had lived through that pivotal and harrowing period in history. Reaching beyond the battlefield descriptions found in most history books, Carmichael presents unforgettable accounts filled with drama, hope, and heartbreak culled from journals and letters of Allied soldiers and nurses. From tales of men “shot at dawn” under charges of desertion or cowardice, to women cross-dressing to get into battle, to a Canadian Member of Parliament whose PTSD-induced death was barely acknowledged by Ottawa for nearly a century, Heard Amid the Guns reflects the human face of war. Featuring profiles of people from every Canadian province and many American states, including soldiers of Indigenous, Asian, Indo-Canadian, and African-Canadian and -American backgrounds, this book is a touching tribute illustrated throughout by WWI-era photos, postcards, documents, and the author’s contemporary photos from battlefield sites and monuments.
Download or read book Statistical Abstract of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden Chicano Cinema written by A. Gabriel Meléndez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. The book highlights “film moments” in this region’s history including the “filmic turn” ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as Adventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, and Red Sky at Morning, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a “distant locale” in the mind of most film audiences.
Download or read book Technical Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commerce of the Prairies written by Josiah Gregg and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Gregg’s masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways. Josiah Gregg, a man of rare sensitivity and passionate science interest, joined a caravan of traders bound for Santa Fé in 1831 and almost immediately developed a fascination for the adventure-packed life of Santa Fé trader. And during the ten years that he engaged in the San Fé trade, Gregg took copious notes on the life and landscape of the American prairies and the Mexican plateau, later utilizing them in Commerce of the Prairies. This new edition faithfully follows the rare first edition, to and including the maps and illustrations. It will be welcomed both by readers familiar with the importance and interest of Gregg’s work and by readers who have yet to discover its attraction.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers written by John P. Langellier and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot summer’s day in Montana, a daring frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his promising career. A member of the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 1884, Clarke graduated dead last, and while short on academic application, he was long on charm and bravado. Clarke obtained a commission with the black troops of the Tenth Cavalry, earning his spurs with these “Buffalo Soldiers.” He evolved into a fearless field commander at the troop level, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. During his brief, action-packed career, Clarke saved a black trooper’s life while under Apache fire and was awarded the Medal of Honor. A chance meeting brought Clarke together with artist Frederic Remington, who brought national attention to Clarke when he illustrated the exploit for an 1886 Harper’s Weekly. The officer and artist became friends, and Clarke served as a model and consultant for future artwork by Remington. Remington’s many depictions of Clarke added greatly to the cavalryman’s luster. In turn, the artist gained fame and fortune in part from drawing on Clarke as his muse. The story of these two unlikely comrades tells much about the final stages of the Wild West and the United States’ emergence on the international scene. Along the way Geronimo, The Apache Kid, “Texas” John Slaughter, and others played their roles in Clarke’s brief, but compelling drama.
