Big Bend's ancient and modern past / / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf ; foreword by Lonn Taylor.

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Place / Publishing House:College Station. : : Texas A&M University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 pages)
Notes:Compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend studies.
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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 Rio Conchos drainage: history, archaeology, significance / J. Charles Kelley
  • History meets Native Americans
  • Native American and Mestizo farming at La Junta de los Rios / 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 Lopez Elizondo
  • Settlers and settlements
  • Settlements and settlers at La Junta de los Rios, 1759-1822 / Oakah L. Jones
  • Mexican American traditional foodways at La Junta de los Rios / 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 Jose 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.