Frontier Stories (eBook)

A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book

Ann Lacy, Anne Valley-Fox (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
330 Seiten
Sunstone Press (Verlag)
978-1-61139-193-0 (ISBN)

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Between 1850 and 1912, the year New Mexico was granted statehood, the Territory of New Mexico was a wild and dangerous place. Homesteaders, cowboys, ranchers, sheepherders, buffalo hunters, prospectors, treasure hunters and railroad men pushing the borders of the western frontier met with resistance from man and animal alike. Native Americans, who had lived on the land defending their boundaries and way of life for centuries, reacted to the wave of outsiders in various ways. The agrarian Pueblo peoples along the Rio Grande largely kept to themselves. Apache, Navajo and Ute tribes sometimes attempted to co-exist with the newcomers but most often they fought against encroachment. Anglo and Mexican outlaws ran roughshod across the frontier and there was no shortage of bears, wolves, mountain lions, blizzards and bad water to unsettle the newcomers. This collection of frontier stories vividly illustrates the range of struggles, triumphs and catastrophes faced by settlers who hoped to tame the land and inhabitants of Territorial New Mexico. Between 1936 and 1940, field workers in the Federal Writers' Project (a branch of the government-funded Works Progress Administration, or WPA, later called Work Projects Administration) recorded authentic accounts of life in the early days of New Mexico. These original documents, published here as a story collection for the first time, reflect the conditions of the New Mexico Territory as played out in dynamic clashes between individuals and groups competing for control of the land and resources. "e;Frontier Stories,"e; the second in the New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book Series after "e;Outlaws & Desperados,"e; features informative background and historic photographs. Forthcoming books in the series include "e;Lost Treasures & Old Mines"e; and "e;Stories From Hispano New Mexico."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: alan cooke • albert thompson • Albuquerque • albuquerque journal • Anecdote • anne lesnett • annette thorp • apache canyon • bear moore • belle kilgore • benton mosley • betty reich • Bill Jones • Billy the Kid • bright lynn • buffalo • buffalo hunter • buffalo hunting • camp maddox • carlsbad • carrie hodges • carrizozo • cesaria gallegos • charlie bachelor • christiana baros • Civil War • clayton • clay vaden • custom • daniel carabajal • Deming • edith crawford • eleanor delong • elerdo chavez • elizabeth fountain armendariz • estevan rael-galvez • fort stanton • Fort Sumner • frances totty • Franciscan • franz huning • George Pickett • george torres • georgia redfield • Geronimo • grant county cattle war • Great Depression • harry coddington • henry lutz • horse trader • Janet Smith • joe prewitt • john mcclue • john trujillo • jose apodaca • juan tafoya • judge mccomas • katherine ragsdale • kenneth fordyce • Las Cruces • last chance canyon • lester raines • llano quemado • lordsburg • louis kennon • lou sage batchen • manuel berg • manville chapman • marie carter • mary burlson • mary lee queen • maurice coates • Mesilla • Monticello • MORA • Navajo • nellie reily • otho allen • patricio gallegos • Pecos River • Pioneer • raton • reyes martinez • Riot • rosario hinjos • Roswell • Ruidoso • rumaldita gurule • rumaldo • rumaldo martinez • san marcial • Santa Fe • santa fe weekly gazette • Silver City • Sitting Bull Falls • Social Life • Socorro • Taos • thomas boggs • tom johnson • Tom Lyons • Tularosa • Turley • Valverde • vermejo • victorio • volney potter • wetherell • william cooley urton • william heacock • Wolf • Wolves
• ISBN-10: 1-61139-193-8 / 1611391938
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61139-193-0 / 9781611391930