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American Military Frontiers - The United States Army In The West, 1783-1900

by Robert Wooster

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 <p>As the fledgling nation looked west to the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains, it turned to the army to advance and defend its national interests. Clashing with Spain, Britain, France, Mexico, the Confederacy, and Indians in this pursuit of expansion, the army''s failures and successes alternately delayed and hastened western migration. Roads, river improvements, and railroads, often constructed or facilitated by the army, further solidified the nation''s presence as it reached the Pacific Ocean and expanded north and south to the borders of Canada and Mexico. Western military experiences thus illustrate the dual role played by the United States Army in insuring national security and fostering national development.</p><p>Robert Wooster''s study examines the fundamental importance of military affairs to social, economic, and political life throughout the borderlands and western frontiers. Integrating the work of other military historians as well as tapping into a broad array of primary materials, Wooster offers a multifaceted narrative that will shape our understanding of the frontier military experience, its relationship with broader concerns of national politics, and its connection to major themes and events in American history.</p>
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Stories Of Mexico'S Independence Days And Other Bilingual Children'S Fables

by Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr.

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 This collection of six bilingual children's stories takes a regional and historical emphasis. Each story is followed with discussion questions to help children recall the story's key details and suggestions for classroom activities designed to stimulate curiosity and expand knowledge of historical events. For ages 8-10.
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Puebloan Ruins Of The Southwest

by Arthur H Rohn e William M Ferguson

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 Offers a picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change. This volume includes photographs and plans of ruins and discusses lifestyle such as their practices, clothing, shelter, physical appearance, government, water management, trade, ceramics, and migrations.
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Healing With Herbs And Rituals - A Mexican Tradition

by Eliseo Cheo Torres

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 Discussing 'curanderismo' and the practice of herbalists, this book focuses on individual healers and their procedures and traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. The product of centuries of experience in Mexico, influenced by the Moors, Judeo-Christians, and Aztecs, this work includes use of items such as lemon and objects such as keys.
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Junkyard Dreams - A Novel

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 Rita owns an automobile junkyard outside of Santa Fe. Her property abuts a hill with a spectacular view, making the junkyard a magnet for developers. But Rita's land has been in her family for generations, and she doesn't want to sell. This novel offers a portrait of land conflict that confronts the trade-offs between improvement and preservation.
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Travel Guide To The Plains Indian Wars

by Stan Edward Hoig

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 An overview of the wars that is useful for a visit to the military posts and sites of battle. This work describes conflicts between American Indians and the US cavalry, Texas Rangers, the various military campaigns, and provides directions to battle sites and museums such as in Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming.
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Larger Than Life - New Mexico In The Twentieth Century

by Ferenc Morton Szasz

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 Offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of Southwestern themes. The essays explore the cultural appeal of the Land of Enchantment from 1945, as well as the horrific ammunition explosion that virtually wiped the hamlet of Tolar, New Mexico, off the map in 1944.
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Between Breaths - A Teacher In The Alaskan Bush

by Sandra K. Mathews

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 In 1958, Alaska was not yet a state. One of the last frontiers in the West, it offered a life of adventure to anyone willing to relocate there. Donna Joy, the daughter of a Methodist minister, had recently graduated from college and was ready for what Alaska promised. This book reflects her willingness to adapt, accept, and to rely on herself.
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Scientists And Storytellers - Feminist Anthropologists And The Construction Of The American Southwest

by Catherine J Lavender

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 Examines the work of a community of Columbia University-trained ethnographers - Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Underhill - who represent four generations of feminist scholarship about the region. They offer an analysis of Indian gender, sexuality, and supposed 'primitiveness'.
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Seema'S Show - A Life On The Left

by Sara Halprin, Phd

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The American Military Frontiers - The United States Army In The West, 1783-1900

by Robert Wooster

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Ike And Mama And The Once A Year Suit

by Snyder

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 The setting is the early 1900s and it's that time of year again: time for the boys to get new suits, some for Passover, some for Easter. Ike's mother, the acknowledged "best bargainer" in the Bronx, takes her ecumenical group of 14 neighborhood boys on a shopping trip for their once-a-year suits, in what becomes a tender and funny adventure.
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Ketubbah - Jewish Marriage Contracts Of Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, And Klau Library

by Shalom Sabar

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 The illustrated "Ketubbah" is a unique artifact of Judaica. It is a legal document virtually unchanged since talmudic times, but it is also an artistic expression of aesthetic tastes and social mores from centuries of Jewish wandering. This title presents a collection of kettubim and includes 48 color plates and 124 black and white photographs.
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Jps The Americanization Of Jewish Culture

by Jonathan D. Sarna

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 Published to mark the 100th anniversary of The Jewish Publication Society, this book presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by the oldest English-language publisher of Jewish books in the world.
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Slavery, Freedom, And Abolition In Latin America And The Atlantic World

by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

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 Beginning with the roots of African slavery in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberian empires, this work explores central issues, including the transatlantic slave trade, labour, Afro-Latin American cultures, racial identities in colonial slave societies, and the spread of antislavery ideas and social movements.
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Native American Life-History Narratives - Colonial And Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography

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 After historical overviews of the early years of Native American and, specifically, Navajo ethnography, this volume introduces a method that enables the reading of editorially reorganized ethnographic texts as a means of accessing and listening to informants' rich stories. Its chapters discuss ""Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography"".
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Cantemos Al Alba - Origins Of Songs, Sounds, And Liturgical Drama Of Hispanic New Mexico

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 Traces the origins of Hispanic New Mexico's liturgical drama, early songs, and sounds to ancient European traditions. This is a bilingual English/Spanish study, and includes two CDs, with examples of the music and the dramas discussed in the text.
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D'Arcy Mcnickle'S ""The Hungry Generations - The Evolution Of A Novel

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 The Hungry Generations is an early, handwritten version of McNickle's groundbreaking and semi-autobiographical novel ""The Surrounded"". This work offers an introduction to ""The Hungry Generations"" and presents the novel here as it was originally written in the 1930s.
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The Vote - A Novel

by Sybil Downing

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 The year is 1918. The issue is passing the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Kate Brennan is mistakenly arrested when she goes to the aid of suffragists being attacked during a peaceful rally. Galvanized by her fourteen-day sentence in the Occoquan workhouse, she becomes a passionate supporter of the National Woman's Party.

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