Historic Laredo
Author: Maria Eugenia Guerra
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1893619168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of Loredo, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
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Laredo
Author: Jerry D. Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781681841052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Life in Laredo
Author: Robert D. Wood
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 157441173X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation The author shows daily live in Laredo and the struggle to survive in a harsh environment from the 1750s - 1850s.
Historic San Marcos
Author: Rodney Van Oudekerke
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 193537740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of San Marcos, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Historic Santa Barbara
Author: Neal Graffy
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1935377140
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Author: Archie P. McDonald
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1893619664
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →¡Viva George!
Author: Elaine A. Peña
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1477321446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
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Streets Of Laredo
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1439126372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena—once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild streches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.
The Injustice Never Leaves You
Author: Monica Muñoz Martinez
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0674989384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award Winner of the María Elena Martínez Prize Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist “A page-turner...Haunting...Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past.” —Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas–Mexico border—including members of the famed Texas Rangers—murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas’s sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. “It’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons...to go mainstream.” —Texas Observer “A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
