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Title

Big Bend's ancient & modern past / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf ; foreword by Lonn Taylor.

Publication

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Glasrud, Bruce A.
• Mallouf, Robert J.

Description

viii, 330 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Big Bend's ancient and modern past

Subject

• Prehistoric peoples > Big Bend Region
• Ethnology > Big Bend Region
• Big Bend Region (Tex.) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 Río Conchos drainage: history, archaeology, significance / J. Charles Kelley -- History meets Native Americans -- Native American and Mestizo farming at La Junta de los Ríos / 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 López Elizondo -- Settlers and settlements -- Settlements and settlers at La Junta de los Ríos, 1759-1822 / Oakah L. Jones -- Mexican American traditional foodways at La Junta de los Ríos / 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 José 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.

ISBN

• 9781623490225 (book/pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1623490227 (book/pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781623491055 (ebook format/all ebooks)
• 1623491053 (ebook format/all ebooks)

LCCN

^^2013017820

OCLC

842350771

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Harvard Library