The task of providing military defense for the Texas Frontier was never an easy one because the territory was claimed by some of the greatest querrilla fighters of all times-the Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches, and Lipans. Protecting a line running from the Red River southwest to El Paso was an impossible task, but following the Mexican War the federal ......
Many of our nation's oldest ethnic communities trace their roots in this country to New York City's Lower East Side. A century ago, travelers to the area could attend a black-faced minstrel show performed by Irishmen, drink German lager, visit Jewish-run gambling houses, and dine on Chinese delicacies, all within a matter of blocks. Long a hub of ......
When the Kurds came to the world's attention in April 1991, trapped in the mountains between Iraq and Turkey, Texas author/photographer Mary Ann Smothers Bruni was with them. Intrigued by their tenacity, Bruni spent the next two years documenting the Kurds and their ability to adapt and continue their lives under difficult, often tragic, ......
The History, Museums, Arts & Festivals of New Mexico
This invaluable cultural guidebook provides information on New Mexico's museums, historic districts, remote villages, ancient ruins, libraries, arts and crafts fairs, performing arts events, and festivals. It also provides a town-by-town directory of arts organizations and art in public places as well as historical profiles and a calendar of ......
The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems
This text addresses the impact GIS is having in our social organization and the ways in which GIS is transforming how we think about the discipline of geography. examining the new technologies for gathering, analyzing and mapping geographic data, the author addresses issues about the use of GIS in research, technology, power, democratization and ......
An easy-to-read geological history of the amazing red rock landscapes in southeastern Utah. Towering red buttes, plunging canyon walls, domes, pinnacles, spires, ten thousand strangely carved forms-what visitor hasn't marveled at the land of rock in southeastern Utah that is Canyonlands Country? Canyonlands Country offers a unique geological ......
Takes the reader on an architectural tour of the State University of New York, the centrepiece of America's one of the largest university system. This book features guides of both the north and south campuses, their history and heritage. It offers maps as well as photographs of the impressive structures.
Alexis de Tocqueville visited Ireland in the company of his good friend Gustave de Beaumont in July and August of 1835. At the time of his visit, Tocqueville had just acquired an international reputation with the publication of the first two volumes of his celebrated Democracy in America. His profound interest in the great transition from ......
This useful guidebook surveys more than 80 ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from UNM Press, it has been praised in particular for its instructions on how to reach even the most obscure sites. Chapter headings: Gold and Coal in the Ortiz Mountains; Ghosts of the Meadows; Cabezon and the Ghosts ......
