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Author : Jerry D. Thompson
Release : 1991
Genre : Laredo (Tex.)
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Book Synopsis Warm Weather & Bad Whiskey by : Jerry D. Thompson
Download or read book Warm Weather & Bad Whiskey written by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry D. Thompson
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Warm Weather & Bad Whiskey by : Jerry D. Thompson
Download or read book Warm Weather & Bad Whiskey written by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence between the two partidos gave rise to the all-powerful Independent Club, the Partido Viejo as it came to be known locally, which dominated Laredo politics for over eighty years and had a major influence on regional, state and even national politics. Jerry Thompson, a historian at Laredo State University known for his work in chronicling the Civil War of the Southwest, has researched the Bota-Guarache confrontation almost entirely from primary sources. He says, "The feud was not sheepmen against cattlemen, homesteaders against ranchers, the unscrupulous against the righteous, or the powerful against the weak. It was a feud between several closely related and powerful families with shifting and often confusing allegiances that cut across racial, religious and class lines.
Author : Jerry D. Thompson
Release : 2008-09-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 81X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis New Mexico Territory During the Civil War by : Jerry D. Thompson
Download or read book New Mexico Territory During the Civil War written by Jerry D. Thompson. This book was released on 2008-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1862 the Civil War was going badly for the North. The distant New Mexico Territory, however, presented a different situation. After an invading army of zealous Texas Confederates won the field at Valverde near Fort Craig, Colorado Volunteers fell on the Rebels at Glorieta Pass and crushed Confederate dreams of conquering New Mexico and the Far West. The Texans, hungry and disheartened, retreated, leaving uncertainty and social unrest in their wake.By the late summer of 1862, Gen. James Henry Carleton arrived from California, determined to impose federal control on the territory. Major Henry Davies Wallen and Captain Andrew Wallace Evans were appointed inspector general and assistant inspector general, respectively. Fearing a second Confederate invasion, Carleton had Wallen and Evans examine various routes the Rebels might use to invade the territory as well as a variety of logistical and operational issues. Tellingly, their reports repeatedly mention troop drunkenness and poor relations with the locals as primary problems. These inspection reports, edited by award-winning Civil War historl War years.ian Thompson, provide unique insight into the military, cultural, and social life of a territory struggling to maintain law and order.
Author : Sam Lopez
Release : 2006-11-29
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature by : Sam Lopez
Download or read book Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature written by Sam Lopez. This book was released on 2006-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years as well as their contributions to the genres in which they wrote. The women -- Leonor Villegas de Magnón, Jovita Idar, and Josefina Niggli—represent three powerful voices from which to gain a clearer understanding of women’s lives and struggles during and after the Mexican Revolution and also, offer surprising insights into women’s active roles in border life and the revolution itself. Readers are encouraged to rethink Chicana lives, and expand their ideas of "Chicana" from a subset of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s to a vibrant and vigorous reality stretching back into the past.
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Release : 2014-09-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 849/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Discovering Texas History by : Bruce A. Glasrud
Download or read book Discovering Texas History written by Bruce A. Glasrud. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Discovering Texas History' is a historiographical reference book that will be invaluable to teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Chapter authors are familiar names in Texas history circles--a 'who's who' of high profile historians. Conceived as a follow-up to the award winning (but increasingly dated) 'A Guide the History of Texas' (1988), 'Discovering Texas History' focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990. In part one, topical essays address significant historical themes, from race and gender to the arts and urban history. In part two, chronological essays cover the full span of Texas historiography from the Spanish era to the modern day. In each case, the goal is to analyze and summarize the subjects that have captured the attention of professional historians so that 'Discovering Texas History' will take its place as the standard work on the history of Texas history"--
