Author: Blanche Chloe Grant
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1070

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Author: Blanche Grant
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865346062
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Grants story of Taos, New Mexico, covers some four centuries of history. She tells fascinating true stories of a settlement that was home to trappers and explorers and later to artists and writers.

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Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Gabriel Alonso de Herrera
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423601203
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The Art of Agriculture is the first English edition of Obra de Agricultura by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera, an agriculture instruction manual originally written in Granada, Spain, in 1513 and published there in 1539. Herrera, widely considered the Father of Modern Spanish Agriculture, wrote this treatise nearly five centuries ago, thoughtfully recounting traditional farming techniques of the Moors before their expulsion from Spain, the Spanish colonizers in the early 1600s, and the rural Indo-Hispano bioregion spanning northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Today, farmers, gardeners, and ecological horticulturists are striving to work in harmony with nature, using traditional irrigation methods (involving acequias, sangras, and arroyos) to transform barren high-desert landscapes into fields supporting crop growth. This book speaks to today's farmers, no matter their size or output, in drought-ridden areas with land patterns characterized by natural ditches (acequias) and community water distribution systems (suertes). This type of agriculture exists not only in the American Southwest but from the Philippines to India to the Middle East. With global warming, water usage, and increased populations today, this book is more pertinent now than ever. Practical as well as philosophical, The Art of Agriculture will fascinate anyone interested in organic farming, sustainable agriculture, and permaculture worldwide.

Author: Lansing Bartlett Bloom
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Juan Ricardo Romero
Publisher: Juan Romero
ISBN: 9781424308101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Nina Baym
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252078845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent.

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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: Blanche Chloe Grant
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865346046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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"Doa Lona" is a story based on actual history and the life of the famous gambling queen, Mara Gertrudis Barcel, better known as Doa Tules. The characters are all part of the real-life drama of the settling of the American Southwest in the 1820s.