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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Note |
Compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend studies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Big Bend history and prehistory / Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf -- Prehistory meets history -- Cradles, cribs, and mattresses: prehistoric sleeping accommodations in the Chihuahuan Desert / Solveig A. Turpin -- Comments on the prehistory of far northeastern Chihuahua, the La Junta District, and the Cielo Complex / Robert J. Mallouf -- The rough run burial: a semisubterranean cairn burial from Brewster County, Texas / William A. Cloud -- The Rio Conchos drainage: history, archaeology, significance / J. Charles Kelley -- History meets Native Americans -- Native American and Mestizo farming at La Junta de los Rios / Enrique R. Madrid -- The Peyote religion and Mescalero Apaches: an ethnohistorical view from West Texas / Stacy B. Schaefer -- Spanish-Indian relations in the Big Bend Region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Elizabeth A.H. John -- New light on Chisos Apache Indian Chief Alsate / Franklin W. Daugherty and Luis Lopez Elizondo -- Settlers and settlements -- Settlements and settlers at La Junta de los Rios, 1759-1822 / Oakah L. Jones -- Mexican American traditional foodways at La Junta de los Rios / Joe S. Graham -- Naming practices among the Black Seminole of the Texas-Mexico border region / Mischa B. Adams -- Transient clergy in the Trans-Pecos area, 1848-1892 / Robert E. Wright -- William Rufus Shafter with the frontier army in the Big Bend / Paul H. Carlson -- Acculturation on the Rio Grande frontier: the founding of San Jose del Polvo and the family of Lucia Rede Madrid / Earl H. Elam -- Glossary of archaeological terms / Robert J. Mallouf -- Suggested readings / Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013). |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Texas -- Big Bend Region.
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Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Glasrud, Bruce A.
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Mallouf, Robert J.
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| ISBN |
9781623490225 |
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9781623491055 (electronic bk.) |
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