Download or read book Town of Old Zapata written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. contain black and white photographs (2 per leaf) of structures, indexed to map portions and identified by property owners. Photographs detail the old town of Zapata that was inundated by construction of Falcon Dam. The town was moved to higher ground.
Download or read book Zapata County Roots Revisted written by Jean Y. Fish and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falcon Dam and the Lost Towns of Zapata written by Patsy Jeanne Byfield and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town of Old Zapata Volume I written by Jo Emma B. Quezada and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems in Relocating the People of Zapata Texas written by Wilfrid C. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zapata County Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kingdom of Zapata written by Virgil N. Lott and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kingdom of Zapata written by Virgil N. Lott and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the building of Falcon Dam will allow this portion of the Magic Valley to blossom in its deserved glory, it will, nevertheless, submerge Zapata, its neighboring villages, and historical landmarks." Dust jacket.
Download or read book Falcon Dam The Lost Towns of Zapata written by Patsty Jeanne Byfield and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Border Boss written by J. Gilberto Quezada and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1, 1937, Manuel B. Bravo was sworn in as county judge of Zapata County, a post he would hold for twenty years. In Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County, J. Gilberto Quezada delineates Bravo’s political career in the Democratic Party and examines his role in some of the important issues of his day, especially Falcon Dam. During Bravo’s years in office, he worked and corresponded with many Texas and national politicians, including James Allred, Lloyd Bentsen, Kika de la Garza, Ralph Yarborough, and, most prominently, Lyndon Johnson. The association between Bravo and Johnson began with the special Senate election of 1941 and is reflected in the more than fifty letters between the two in Bravo's personal papers. In Johnson's 1948 Senate runoff against Coke Stevenson, voting irregularities were alleged in Zapata County when the election returns from Precinct No. 3 were reported missing. Quezada analyzes the Bravo papers for any evidence that Bravo and Johnson had arranged the disappearance and offers possible alternative explanations. From the 1930s to the 1950s Zapata County was one of six South Texas counties where the Tejano majority dominated local politics and held most public offices. Bravo became known as one of the "Mexican bosses" of South Texas, but Quezada draws a more nuanced picture of bossism than has been presented previously, analyzing the role of influential leading families but looking as well at the degree of economic integration into the state and nation as factors in how bossism developed. Those interested in Mexican-American studies and politics and bossism in South Texas will appreciate the window onto South Texas politics and Tejano culture this biography gives.
Download or read book Falcon Dam and the Lost Towns of Zapata written by Patsy Jeanne Byfield German and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jos Antonio Zapata written by Jean Y. Fish and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cuckoo Papers written by Jerry Beauchamp and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commitment of mental patients, their unusual treatments in the early 1950s. A description and life style of some of the patients who were committed at the State Hospital in Texas. From the cells in a tunnel to grated wards.
Download or read book Tequila written by Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The array of bottles is impressive, their contents finely tuned to varied tastes. But they all share the same roots in Mesoamerica's natural bounty and human culture. The drink is tequila—more properly, mescal de tequila, the first mescal to be codified and recognized by its geographic origin and the only one known internationally by that name. In ¡Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History, Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata, the leading agronomist in Mexico's tequila industry, and Gary Paul Nabhan, one of America's most respected ethnobotanists, plumb the myth of tequila as they introduce the natural history, economics, and cultural significance of the plants cultivated for its production. Valenzuela-Zapata and Nabhan take you into the agave fields of Mexico to convey their passion for the century plant and its popular by-product. In the labor-intensive business of producing quality mescal, the cultivation of tequila azul is maintained through traditional techniques passed down over generations. They tell how jimadores seek out the mature agaves, strip the leaves, and remove the heavy heads from the field; then they reveal how the roasting and fermentation process brings out the flavors that cosmopolitan palates crave. Today in Oaxaca it's not unusual to find small-scale mescal-makers vending their wares in the market plaza, while in Jalisco the scale of distillation facilities found near the town of Tequila would be unrecognizable to old José Cuervo. Valenzuela-Zapata and Nabhan trace tequila's progress from its modest beginnings to one of the world's favored spirits, tell how innovations from cross-cultural exchanges made fortunes for Cuervo and other distillers, and explain how the meteoric rise in tequila prices is due to an epidemic—one they predicted would occur—linked to the industry's cultivation of just one type of agave. The tequila industry today markets more than four hundred distinct products through a variety of strategies that heighten the liquor's mystique, and this book will educate readers about the grades of tequila, from blanco to añejo, and marks of distinction for connoisseurs who pay up to two thousand dollars for a bottle. ¡Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History will feed anyone's passion for the gift of the blue agave as it heightens their appreciation for its rich heritage.
Download or read book The Volpe Family of Two Zapatas written by Zapata County Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spirits of the Border V written by Ken Hudnall and published by Omega Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.
Download or read book The Cultural and Natural Resources of Los Caminos Del Rio Heritage Corridor written by Mario Lorenzo Sánchez and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
