The Spirit Of Val Verde

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The Spirit Of Val Verde

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

The Spirit Of Val Verde written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Val Verde County (Tex.) categories.

Val Verde County

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Author : Douglas Lee Braudaway
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 1999

Val Verde County written by Douglas Lee Braudaway and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

Along the banks of the Rio Grande lies Val Verde County, one of the largest counties in Texas. The spirit of the region and its people are captured in historic photos.

Val Verde County

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Author : Douglas Braudaway
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 1999-05

Val Verde County written by Douglas Braudaway and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05 with History categories.

Along the banks of the Rio Grande lies Val Verde County, one of the largest counties in Texas and the only one named for a Civil War battle. Although Del Rio is the county seat, Langtry is more famous as the home of Judge Roy Bean, the famous (as well as infamous) Law West of the Pecos. Among the many evocative images of the county featured in this new book are photos of the judge's unique court/saloon. Val Verde County captures the spirit of a region and its people through historic photographs. Most of the topics included are not strictly local in nature: Pre-Columbian art, United States westward expansion, the creation of the state of Texas, radio and modern telecommunications, military history and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the oldest continually operating winery in Texas. From being the oldest archaeological site in Texas to playing a role in international relations between the United States and Mexico, Val Verde County undoubtedly has a rich and varied history.

Spirit Leveling In Texas

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Author : John George Staack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942

Spirit Leveling In Texas written by John George Staack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Bench-marks categories.

Violence And The Genesis Of The Anatomical Image

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Author : Rose Marie San Juan
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2022-11-28

Violence And The Genesis Of The Anatomical Image written by Rose Marie San Juan and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-28 with Art categories.

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that appears near the woodcut of a person being dissected while still hanging from the gallows. In this highly original book, Rose Marie San Juan confronts the question of violence in the making of the early modern anatomical image. Engaging the ways in which power operated in early modern anatomical images in Europe and, to a lesser extent, its colonies, San Juan examines literal violence upon bodies in a range of civic, religious, pedagogical, and “exploratory” contexts. She then works through the question of how bodies were thought to be constituted—systemic or piecemeal, singular or collective—and how gender determines this question of constitution. In confronting the issue of violence in the making of the anatomical image, San Juan explores not only how violence transformed the body into a powerful and troubling double but also how this kind of body permeated attempts to produce knowledge about the world at large. Provocative and challenging, this book will be of significant interest to scholars across fields in early modern studies, including art history and visual culture, science, and medicine.

Texas Place Names

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Author : Edward Callary
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2020-06-02

Texas Place Names written by Edward Callary and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with History categories.

Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it, derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life.

Spirits Of The Border V

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Author : Ken Hudnall
language : en
Publisher: Omega Press
Release Date : 2005

Spirits Of The Border V written by Ken Hudnall and has been published by Omega Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.

This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.

Raza Schools

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Author : Jesus Jesse Esparza
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2023-09-19

Raza Schools written by Jesus Jesse Esparza and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with History categories.

In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so—against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation—is the story Jesús Jesse Esparza tells in Raza Schools, a history of the rise and fall of the San Felipe Independent School District from the end of World War I through the post–civil rights era. The residents of San Felipe, whose roots Esparza traces back to the nineteenth century, faced a Jim Crow society in which deep-seated discrimination extended to education, making biased curriculum, inferior facilities, and prejudiced teachers the norm. Raza Schools highlights how the people of San Felipe harnessed the mechanisms and structures of this discriminatory system to create their own educational institutions, using the courts whenever necessary to protect their autonomy. For forty-two years, the Latino community funded, maintained, and managed its own school system—until 1971, when in an attempt to address school segregation, the federal government forced the San Felipe Independent School District to consolidate with a larger neighboring, mostly white school district. Esparza describes the ensuing clashes—over curriculum, school governance, teachers’ positions, and funding—that challenged Latino autonomy. While focusing on the relationships between Latinos and whites who shared a segregated city, his work also explores the experience of African Americans who lived in Del Rio and attended schools in both districts as a segregated population. Telling the complex story of how territorial pride, race and racism, politics, economic pressures, local control, and the federal government collided in Del Rio, Raza Schools recovers a lost chapter in the history of educational civil rights—and in doing so, offers a more nuanced understanding of race relations, educational politics, and school activism in the US-Mexico borderlands.

The Bizarre Careers Of John R Brinkley

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Author : R. Alton Lee
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2022-08-16

The Bizarre Careers Of John R Brinkley written by R. Alton Lee and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

By 1926, it seemed that John R. Brinkley's experimental rejuvenation cure—transplanting goat glands into aging men—had taken the nation by storm. Never mind that "Doc" Brinkley's medical credentials were shaky at best and that he prescribed medication over the airwaves via his high-power radio stations. To most in the medical field, he was a quack. But to his many patients and listeners, he was a brilliant surgeon, a savior of their lost manhood and youth. His rogue radio stations, XER and its successor XERA, eventually broadcast at an antenna-shattering 1,000,000 watts and not only were a megaphone for Brinkley's lucrative quackery but also hosted an unprecedented number of then-unknown country musicians and other guests. The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley tells the story of the infamous "Goat Gland Doctor"—a controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner—and recounts his amazing rags-to-riches-to-rags career. A master manipulator and skilled con artist, Brinkley left behind a patchwork of myths and unreliable personal accounts that many writers have merely perpetuated—until now. Alton Lee brings Brinkley's infamous legacy to the forefront, exploring how he ruthlessly exploited the sexual frustrations of aging men and the general public's antipathy toward medical doctors. Lee leaves no stone unturned in this account of a man who changed the course of American institutions forever.

Bulletin Of The Pan American Union

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Author : Pan American Union
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920

Bulletin Of The Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with America categories.