Download or read book A Brief History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley written by Frank Cushman Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley by Frank Cushman Pierce, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book The Rio Grande written by Katie Marsico and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the Rio Grande and its surrounding area.
Download or read book War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier 1830 1880 written by Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical record of the Rio Grande valley through much of the nineteenth century reveals well-documented violence fueled by racial hatred, national rivalries, lack of governmental authority, competition for resources, and an international border that offered refuge to lawless men. Less noted is the region’s other everyday reality, one based on coexistence and cooperation among Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and the Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans who also inhabited the borderlands. War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880 is a history of these parallel worlds focusing on a border that gave rise not only to violent conflict but also cooperation and economic and social advancement. Meeting here are the Anglo-Americans who came to the border region to trade, spread Christianity, and settle; Mexicans seeking opportunity in el norte; Native Americans who raided American and Mexican settlements alike for plunder and captives; and Europeans who crisscrossed the borderlands seeking new futures in a fluid frontier space. Historian Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga draws on national archives, letters, consular records, periodicals, and a host of other sources to give voice to borderlanders’ perspectives as he weaves their many, varied stories into one sweeping narrative. The tale he tells is one of economic connections and territorial disputes, of refugees and bounty hunters, speculation and stakeholding, smuggling and theft and other activities in which economic considerations often carried more weight than racial prejudice. Spanning the Anglo settlement of Texas in the 1830s, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas , the US-Mexican War, various Indian wars, the US Civil War, the French intervention into Mexico, and the final subjugation of borderlands Indians by the combined forces of the US and Mexican armies, this is a magisterial work that forever alters, complicates, and enriches borderlands history. Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
Download or read book Hispanic Folklore in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas written by Juanita Stroud Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolution in Texas written by Benjamin Heber Johnson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revolution in Texas, Benjamin Johnson tells the little-known story of one of the most intense and protracted episodes of racial violence in United States history. In 1915, against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the uprising that would become known as the Plan de San Diego began with a series of raids by ethnic Mexicans on ranches and railroads. Local violence quickly erupted into a regional rebellion. In response, vigilante groups and the Texas Rangers staged an even bloodier counterinsurgency, culminating in forcible relocations and mass executions. eventually collapsed. But, as Johnson demonstrates, the rebellion resonated for decades in American history. Convinced of the futility of using force to protect themselves against racial discrimination and economic oppression, many Mexican Americans elected to seek protection as American citizens with equal access to rights and protections under the US Constitution.
Download or read book Water quality Assessment of the Rio Grande Valley Colorado New Mexico and Texas written by Scott K. Anderholm and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rio Grande River of Destiny written by Laura Gilpin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rio Grande: River of Destiny, is a monumental study of the Rio Grande and the people along its banks: "Near the once-fabulous, now-ghost town of Creede, Colorado, flow the springs and the trickles of melting snow which make the Rio Grande. Here at 14,000 feet, is born a river which irrigates 1,751,700 acres of farmland in the United States and Mexico. In the course of its violent, precipitous, meandering, laze descent to the Gulf of Mexico 1800 miles away, the Rio Grande is beauty and history and legend and economics and social problems - a touchstone river of American life, a river of destiny indeed." -- Excerpt from Book Jacket.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indians of the Rio Grande Delta written by Martín Salinas and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnologist Gerber (the Ethnology Museum, U. of Zurich) traces the history, culture, and structure of these peoples since they first crossed the land bridge from Russia during the Ice Age. He examines the continuities and discontinuities in the Indian cultures, and the relations between Indians and white men. The continuities are well- captured in art, and some 200 illustrations, almost half in color, capture the ceremonial brilliance and mythic resonance of the cultures. Working from primary (Spanish) documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Salinas has reconstructed something of the history, geographical range and migrations, demography, language, and culture of some six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the 16th through the 18th centuries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Conflict on the Rio Grande written by Douglas R. Littlefield and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Rio Grande since the late nineteenth century reflects the evolution of water-resource management in the West. It was here that the earliest interstate and international water-allocation problems pitted irrigators in southern New Mexico against farmers downstream in El Paso and Juarez, with the voluntary resolution of that conflict setting important precedents for national and international water law. In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the Rio Grande, Douglas R. Littlefield describes those early interstate and international water- apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate to the development of western water law and policy and to international relations with Mexico. Littlefield embraces environmental, legal, and social history to offer clear analyses of appropriation and riparian water rights doctrines, along with lucid accounts of court cases and laws. Examining events that led up to the 1904 settlement among U.S. and Mexican communities and the formation of the Rio Grande Compact in 1938, Littlefield describes how communities grappled over water issues as much with one another as with governmental authorities. Conflict on the Rio Grande reveals the transformation of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century law, traces changing attitudes about the role of government, and examines the ways these changes affected the use and eventual protection of natural resources. Rio Grande water policy, Littlefield shows, represents federalism at work—and shows the West, in one locale at least, coming to grips with its unique problems through negotiation and compromise.
Download or read book The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Northern Mexico 1944 Year Book written by Mabel Collier Epright and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue and Gray on the Border written by Christopher L. Miller and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up, 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA) Most general histories of the Civil War pay scant attention to the many important military events that took place in the Lower Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border. It was here, for example, that many of the South’s cotton exports, all-important to its funding for the war effort, were shuttled across the Rio Grande into Mexico for shipment to markets across the Atlantic. It was here that the Union blockade was felt perhaps most keenly. And it was here where longstanding cross-border rivalries and shifting political fortunes on both sides of the river made for a constant undercurrent of intrigue. And yet, most accounts of this long and bloody conflict give short shrift to the complexities of the ethnic tensions, political maneuvering, and international diplomacy that vividly colored the Civil War in this region. Now, Christopher L. Miller, Russell K. Skowronek, and Roseann Bacha-Garza have woven together the history and archaeology of the Lower Rio Grande Valley into a densely illustrated travel guide featuring important historical and military sites of the Civil War period. Blue and Gray on the Border integrates the sites, colorful personalities, cross-border conflicts, and intriguing historical vignettes that outline the story of the Civil War along the Texas-Mexico border. This resource-packed book will aid heritage travelers, students, and history buffs in their discovery of the rich history of the Civil War in the Rio Grande Valley.
Download or read book A Little Journey Through the Lower Valley of the Rio Grande written by Julia Cameron Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water quality Assessment of the Rio Grande Valley Study Unit Colorado New Mexico and Texas written by Scott K. Anderholm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Planning Vol 6 written by National Resources Committee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Regional Planning, Vol. 6: The Rio Grande Joint Investigation in the Upper Rio Grande Basin in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, 1936-1937 Rio Grande is an interstate and an international stream. It rises in Colorado and flows southward for more than 400 miles across New Mexico. After leav ing New Mexico, it forms the boundary between Texas and the Republic of Mexico for about miles to its mouth. The total length of the river is about miles. With respect to usage of water and the problems concerned with that usage, the river is divided into two distinct sections at Fort Quitman, or at the narrow gorge a few miles below. Above this nearly all the water of the river is being consumed by irrigation in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Below, in the lower basin, the river develops its flow mainly from tributaries in Mexico. In the Upper Rio Grande Basin, including parts of Colorado and New Mexico, and a very small part of Texas, more than 99 percent of the water supply comes from Colorado and New Mexico in about equal amounts. In accordance with natural divisions, the upper basin comprises three principal areas: the San Luis section in Colorado, the Middle section in New Mexico, and the Elephant butte-fort Quitman section in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. These are indicated on the general map, plate 1. The San Luis section comprises the basin of Rio Grande in Colorado, the principal agricultural area of which is the San Luis Valley. This is a broad plain of smooth topography, surrounded by mountains except on the south near the colorado-new Mexico State line, where the river has cut an outlet for the southern portion of the valley. The northern portion is not thus drained and is known as the Closed Basin. The valley floor ranges in altitude from to feet and the surrounding mountains from to more than feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of Spanish Mexican and Texas Land Policies in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas with an Analysis of the Texas Revolt and Mexican War and Their Impact Upon the Land Theft and Subsequent Development of the Asociacion de Reclamantes written by Dave Marquez and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Quality Assessment of the Rio Grande Valley Colorado New Mexiko and Texas written by Scott K. Anderholm and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
