Big Bend's Ancient and Modern Past.

Big Bend's Ancient and Modern Past.

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The Big Bend region of Texas-variously referred to as "El Despoblado" (the uninhabited land), "a land of contrasts," "Texas' last frontier," or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos-enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written reco...

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Author / Creator: Glasrud, Bruce A.
Other Authors / Creators:Mallouf, Robert J.
Taylor, Lonn.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Ethnology - Texas - Big Bend Region.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Big Bend History and Prehistory
  • I. Prehistory Meets History
  • 1. Cradles, Cribs, and Mattresses: Prehistoric Sleeping Accommodations in the Chihuahuan Desert
  • 2. Comments on the Prehistory of Far Northeastern Chihuahua, the La Junta District, and the Cielo Complex
  • 3. The Rough Run Burial: A Semisubterranean Cairn Burial from Brewster County, Texas
  • 4. The Río Conchos Drainage: History, Archaeology, Significance
  • II. History Meets Native Americans
  • 5. Native American and Mestizo Farming at La Junta de los Ríos
  • 6. The Peyote Religion and Mescalero Apaches: An Ethnohistorical View from West Texas
  • 7. Spanish-Indian Relations in the Big Bend Region during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
  • 8. New Light on Chisos Apache Indian Chief Alsate
  • III. Settlers &amp
  • Settlements
  • 9. Settlements and Settlers at La Junta de los Ríos, 1759-1822
  • 10. Mexican American Traditional Foodways at La Junta de los Ríos
  • 11. Naming Practices among the Black Seminole of the Texas-Mexico Border Region
  • 12. Transient Clergy in the Trans-Pecos Area, 1848-1892
  • 13. William Rufus Shafter with the Frontier Army in the Big Bend
  • 14. Acculturation on the Rio Grande Frontier: The Founding of San José Del Polvo and the Family of Lucia Rede Madrid
  • Glossary of Archaeological Terms
  • Suggested Readings
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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