Historic San Marcos
Author: Rodney Van Oudekerke
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 193537740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of San Marcos, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Rodney Van Oudekerke
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 193537740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of San Marcos, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author: Jim Kimmel
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781585445424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe San Marcos springs have flowed for around ten million years. In this ode to the river they form, Jim Kimmel brings us a picture of a watercourse brimming with life, past and present. Native, non-native, prehistoric, and modern-day plants, animals, and people have inhabited the river and its banks. Kimmel touches on them all with the affectionate and knowledgeable voice of one whose own life has been closely linked to the San Marcos. As readers journey with Kimmel from the river's headwater springs to its junction with the Guadalupe River, The San Marcos: A River's Story will capture the imagination and provide valuable information about the river and its crucial role in the ecological health of Texas. Original photographs by Jerry Touchstone Kimmel add a sense of the beauty and complexity of the river.
Author: Ann F. Ramenofsky
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0826358357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Marcos, one of the largest late prehistoric Pueblo settlements along the Rio Grande, was a significant social, political, and economic hub both before Spanish colonization and through the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. This volume provides the definitive record of a decade of archaeological investigations at San Marcos, ancestral home to Kewa (formerly Santo Domingo) and Cochiti descendants. The contributors address archaeological and historical background, artifact analysis, and population history. They explore possible changes in Pueblo social organization, examine population changes during the occupation, and delineate aspects of Pueblo/Spanish interaction that occur with Spaniards’ intrusion into the colony and especially the Galisteo Basin. Highlights include historical context, in-depth consideration of archaeological field and laboratory methods, compositional and stylistic analyses of the famed glaze-paint ceramics, analysis of flaked stone that includes obsidian hydration dating, and discussion of the beginnings of colonial metallurgy and protohistoric Pueblo population change.
Author: Charles William Maynard
Publisher: Powerkids Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780823958412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the history of the fort the Spaniards built to protect St. Augustine.
Author: Gary Hartman
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1603443940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The richly diverse ethnic heritage of the Lone Star State has brought to the Southwest a remarkable array of rhythms, instruments, and musical styles that have blended here in unique ways and, in turn, have helped shape the music of the nation and the world." "Historian Gary Hartman writes knowingly and lovingly of the Lone Star State's musical traditions. In the first thorough survey of the vast and complex cultural mosaic that has produced what we know today as "Texas music," he paints a broad, panoramic view, offers analysis of the origins of and influences on specific genres, profiles key musicians, and provides guidance to additional sources for further information." "A musician himself, Hartman draws on both academic and non-academic sources to give a more complete understanding of the state's remarkable musical heritage. He combines scholarly training in music history and ethnic community studies with his first-hand knowledge of how important music is as a cultural medium through which human beings communicate information, ideas, emotions, values, and beliefs, and bond together as friends, families, and communities." "The History of Texas Music incorporates a selection of well-chosen photographs of both prominent and less-well-known artists and describes not only the ethnic origins of much of Texas music but also the cross-pollination among various genres. Today, the music of Texas - which includes Native American music, gospel, blues, ragtime, swing, jazz, rhythm and blues, conjunto, Tejano, cajun, zydeco, western swing, honky tonk, polkas, schottisches, rock & roll, rap, hip hop, and more - reflects the unique cultural dynamics of the Southwest."--Jacket
Author: Albert C. Manucy
Publisher:
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E R Bills
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781540241078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn November 13, 1969, ten students at Texas State University were suspended for participating in a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. They had kept vigil in front of the Huntington Mustangs, bearing signs that read, "Vietnam Is an Edsel" and "44,000 U.S. Dead, For What?" while an increasingly hostile anti-protest crowd chanted, "Love it or leave it!" and "Let's string 'em up!" It was a day after news of the My Lai massacre broke. Part of a coordinated, nationwide Vietnam Moratorium effort that confounded and infuriated the Nixon White House, the "San Marcos 10" challenged their suspension, taking their case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Author E.R. Bills offers this fascinating glimpse into the 1960s antiwar movement in Texas, the extraordinary measures to quell it and the broader social activism in which it participated.
Author: Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9781585441969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Author: Steve Rajtar
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2008-02
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781540218087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Texas
Publisher:
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK