The Lower Pecos River, Pandale to Lake Amistad
Author: Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher: Louis F. Aulbach
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780976521327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher: Louis F. Aulbach
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780976521327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Louis Aulbach
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12-22
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781981241071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Lower Pecos River trip from Pandale to Lake Amistad is approximately sixty river miles. There are forty-eight miles of free-flowing, and sometimes wild, river. The last twelve miles are across the waters of Lake Amistad which have inundated the deep canyon of the Pecos to depths of up to eighty feet.For many centuries, the inhabitants of this region have relied upon the river and its water. As the Trans Pecos became more arid, the importanceof the river increased. The Pecos became the focus of life for the paleo-Indians who lived in and around the river and the canyons of the Lower Pecos. No other river in Texas, and few others in the United States, passes through as many sites of prehistoric human habitation as the Pecos River.The Pecos, under normal flow conditions, is a pool and drop river. The pools can be wide and shallow, or relatively deep and subject to the buffets of high, gusty winds. The drops are short ledges, steep and rocky drops, or long, complex boulder gardens. There are several Class II rapids and two Class III to III+ rapids. In addition, several miles of grooved channels in the stream bed, commonly called "the flutes", challenge the paddling skills in a uniquely "Pecos" way.
Author: Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher: Louis F. Aulbach
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 0976521342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary S. Black
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1623495091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy Bean Visitors’ Center and Botanical Garden, Seminole Canyon State Park, and the Briscoe-Garner Museum in Uvalde, along with ghost towns, ancient rock art, sweeping vistas, and unique flora and fauna, are just a few of the features that make this distinctive section of the Lone Star State an enticing destination. Now, veteran writer, blogger, and educator Mary S. Black serves up the best of this region’s special adventures and secret treasures. From the Frio to Del Rio is chock-full of helpful maps, colorful photography, and tips on where to stay, what to do, and how to get there. In addition there are details for 10 scenic routes, 3 historic forts and 7 state parks and other recreation areas.
Author: James Burr Harrison Macrae
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1623496411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms. While full understanding of the meaning of these images is abstruse, archaeologists and other scholars have identified what they believe to be patterns and religious themes, mixed with what could be figures and objects from everyday life in the local hunter-gatherer culture as it existed in the region centuries before the arrival of colonizing Europeans. Although interpretation of these pictographs remains controversial, in Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography, James Burr Harrison Macrae contributes to the beginnings of a syntactic “grammar” for these images that can be applied in diverse contexts without direct reference to any particular interpretation. “The strength of structural-iconographic analysis,” Macrae writes, “is that it relies on repetitive patterns rather than idiosyncratic information, such as trying to make broad inferences from one or only a few sites.” Pecos River Style Rock Art offers the framework of an empirical methodology for understanding these ancient artworks.
Author: Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher: Louis F. Aulbach
Published: 2005-02
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 0976521334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carolyn E. Boyd
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781585442591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Boyd seed a way that hunter-gatherer artists expressed their belief systems; provided a mechanism for social and environmental adaptation; and acted as agents in the social, economic, and ideological affairs of the community. She offers detailed information gleaned from the art regarding the nature of the Lower Pecos cosmos, ritual practices involving the use of sacramental and medicinal plants, and hunter-gatherer lifeways.
Author: Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9781585441969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 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: Verne Huser
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2004-03-31
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781585443697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the landscape, history, geology, and recreational opportunities afforded by the rivers of Texas, presenting information about each river's size, location, tributaries, discharge, and special sites.
Author: Stephen Hartley Daniel
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1603446532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Texas and whitewater. Who knew? According to veteran paddler Steve Daniel, one doesn't have to be an outdoors expert to find whitewater fun and adventure in the Lone Star State. Sometimes all that's needed is a little rain and perseverance - and this handy guide to Texas rivers and creeks with the greatest prospects for whitewater.