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  • Tempe

    by Frederic B. Wildfang, Linda Spears, Tempe History Museum ...
    Series series Then and Now
    Charles Trumbull Hayden built the first canal on the south side of the Salt River in 1870. Soon after, he built a store, a flour mill, and a cable ferry across the river, and he started a town. Since then, Tempe has changed from a small farming community to a lively urban center. Moreover, Tempe's residential growth has made it the seventh-largest town in Arizona. Author Frederic B. Wildfang ... Read more

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  • Durango

    by Frederic B. Wildfang, Nik Kendzioski, Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College ...
    Series series Postcard History
    This collection presents a postcard tour of Durango and its environs and provides keen insight into the history and colorful character of this area, which has been a vibrant center of Southwestern Colorado for more than a century. A brief history of postcards as a convenient medium for sharing messages'and as a revolutionary departure from Victorian-era long letters'is included here as well. The ... Read more

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    A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

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  • The Apache Wars

    The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

    by Paul Andrew Hutton ...
    A stunningly vivid account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the Apaches’ decades-long struggle for their homeland—a vibrant saga of blood, power, family, and revenge from the renowned historian and author of The Undiscovered Country“An epic tale filled with Homeric scenes and unforgettable characters.”—Chicago TribuneThey called him Mickey Free. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. And his ... Read more

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  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

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  • Ten-Gallon War

    The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future

    by John Eisenberg ...
    "It's every bit as fascinating to read about the battles between the Cowboys and the Texans as it is to follow today's never-ending NFL dramas." —Mike Florio, ProFootballTalkIn the 1960s, on the heels of the "Greatest Game Ever Played," professional football began to flourish across the country—except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of ... Read more

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  • Spin Masters

    How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama

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  • La Calle

    Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

    by Lydia R. Otero ...
    On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to Oklahoma

    The Sooner State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

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  • On Strike and on Film

    Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America

    by Ellen R. Baker ...
    In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines — an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class ... Read more

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  • Wings Over San Antonio

    by Mel Brown ...
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    In March 1910, Lt. Benjamin Foulois was ordered to Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas, with a used Wright Brothers aeroplane and a small contingent of enlisted men. His mission was to teach himself how to operate this primitive flying machine and begin demonstrating the practical uses it might have for the United States Army. This history is chronicled through in-depth captions and over 200 ... Read more

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  • Undaunted

    A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas

    by Charles H. Russell ...
    Series Book 20 - Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
    Elise Waerenskjold is known to fans of Texas women writers as "the lady with the pen," from the title of a book of her writings. A forward-looking journalist, she sent letters and articles back to Norway that encouraged others to follow her footsteps to Texas, where a small colony of Norwegian settlers were making a new life alongside—but distinct from—other European immigrants.Undaunted is the ... Read more

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