Federico Villalba's Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend, Paperback - Juan Manuel Casas

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fiftee...

Reducere. DescriptionTo the wild and fabulous country where the Rio Grande makes its big bend, J. O. Langford came in 1909 with his wife and daughter in sear...

Reducere. A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United States' most remo...

The book is semi-autobigraphical and reflects on a myriad of memories darting back to childhood. Now, at the age of 70 the author looks back at acc...

Reducere. Now in its sixth printing, the first of Elton Miles's folklore collections tells stories as inseparable from the region as the Rio Grande itself. T...

Reducere. Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. The wide range of habitats within the park desert, foothills, mountains and moist woodl...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Felix SaltenIllustration(s): 11 b/w illus.Translator: Jack ZipesNumber of pages: 192Publication dat...

Reducere. Big Bend attracts some of the most dedicated visitors of any national park in the country. They drive for hours from all across Texas and beyond, s...

DescriptionResponding to shifts in the political and economic experiences of Mexicans in America, this newly revised and expanded edition of Mexica...

These award-winning stories are full of grit and hope, good sex and bad luck. Bill Roorbach's men are sweet and passionate and usually kind. They m...

Reducere. March 4, 1911). . . and even at night when I cross the turbulent waters of the Rio Grande and listen to the music her waters make in their mad rush...

Reducere. She was a friend, lover, and confidante of charismatic Spanish American independence hero Simon Bolivar and, after her death, a nationalist icon in...

Contributor(s): Michael Aaron FrishkopfEditor: Federico SpinettiTracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and...

Reducere. Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding, an...

Reducere. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women ...

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

Reducere. A Study of the Disputation between Bartlome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda on the religious and iltellectual capacity of the American Ind...

An analysis of three of Lorca's plays, providing a new view of Lorca as a dramatist and presenting new material to students of symbology.

Reducere. The title, "Not Bad for a South Texas Boy", comes from a note penned by Federico Peña's college English professor. While first read as encouraging,...

In the spring of 1881, W. M. D. Lee and Lucien B. Scott, wealthy businessmen of Leavenworth, Kansas, purchased land in the upper Texas Panhandle to...

Reducere. From an early age, Chef Ad n Medrano understood the power of cooking to enthrall, to grant artistic agency, and to solidify identity as well as suc...

Reducere. Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, P o de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who...

This third edition of our ground-breaking publication, the first survey of Tejanos, has been completely updated to present a concise political, cul...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews wi...

Reducere. 850When one opens the pages to this book they step into another world and place, and even on occasions, another time. No matter what you may know a...

Reducere. Juan Carlos Osorio ha sido un huracán en México. Su método y su visión sobre el juego han revuelto a la prensa y a la afición del país, las cuales ...

Reducere. Un libro único«La gran dibujante y contadora de historias que es Ilu Ros aborda ahora la vida y obra de Federico García Lorca. Su Federico está lle...

Reducere. The Road to Dr Pepper, Texas is the story of Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Co., a David-Goliath case study of the world's first Dr Pepper bottling plan...

Reducere. To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlook...

DescriptionIn 1830 census takers trudged door to door in San Antonio de Bexar and Nacogdoches gathering census data on the residents. Either they g...

The stories of three individual careers combine seamlessly to tell the dramatic story of the RAF from the era of biplanes and into the jet age of t...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Karen Harden McCrackenIllustration(s): 13 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 2 indexes, appendixNumber of p...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware...

Reducere. The Mexican Revolution began in 1910 with the overthrow of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The Wind That Swept Mexico, originally published in 1943, was th...

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and...

Reducere. In A Haven in the Sun, nature writer B. C. Robison presents a unique portrayal of birds of the Texas Coast. Through the stories of birds that have ...

Reducere. Silver Medal winner for "Military Non-Fiction" category Military Writers Society of America 2008 AwardsThe Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio L...

Reducere. Much has been written about the great personalist philosophers of the 20th century - including Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mournier, Martin Buber...

Reducere. La contaminacion ambiental esta poniendo en riesgo los principales recursos naturales sobre los que se sustenta la vida. Por ello es necesario esta...