Big Bend's ancient and modern past / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf ; foreword by Lonn Taylor.
The Big Bend region of Texas-variously referred to as "El Despoblado" (the uninhabited land), "a land of contrasts," "Texas' last frontier," or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos-enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written reco...
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Texas A & M University Press,
2013.
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Table of 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.