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Great West and Indian volume 36
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155 pages : illustrations, map (on lining papers) ; 22 cm.
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De Ángeles y... algunas moscas es una antología de cuentos cortos, algunos breves, dos largos y dos poemas, que abordan temas como: la prostitución, el amor de pareja, los sueños, el suicidio, la soledad, la búsqueda de la espiritualidad y el sentido de ser.
Enmarcados dentro del Realismo Poético. De Ángeles y algunas moscas es el aleteo zumbador que nos lleva a la escucha de los textos de la obra de Jordán Estevan. La genealogía y advocaciones...
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Nearly two centuries before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began their epic trek to the Pacific coast, a group of three Spanish noblemen and an African survived shipwreck, famine, Indian attack, and disease to make the first crossing of North America in recorded history. Drawing on contemporary accounts and long-lost records, Robert Goodwin tells the amazing story of their odyssey through the American South. Goodwin's groundbreaking research in...
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x, 276 pages ; 24 cm
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" Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperative effort among Acoma Pueblo, which owned the structure, and other interested parties. Kate Wingert-Playdon's narrative of the restoration and the process...
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xix, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"When Pueblo Indians say, "The first white man our people saw was a black man," they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban's importance in America's early history. Books about the history of the American West have ignored Esteban or belittled his importance, often using his slave nickname, Estebanico. What little we know about Esteban comes from Alvar Núñez...
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Historians have long admired Ralph Emerson Twitchell's "The Leading Facts of New Mexican History," considered the first major history of the state. Put succinctly by former State Historian Robert J. Torrez, Twitchell's work (of which this is one of the first two volumes Sunstone Press is reprinting in its Southwest Heritage Series) has "become the standard by which all subsequent books on New Mexico history are measured." As Twitchell wrote in the...
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xii, 266 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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English
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"Produced in conjunction with the documentary radio series entitled Watersheds as Commons, this book comprises essays and interviews from a diverse group of southwesterners including members of Tewa, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. Their varied cultural perspectives are shaped by consciousness and resilience through having successfully endured the aridity and harshness of southwestern environments."--Provided by publisher....
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