Author: Mary Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737154549
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
At 14 years old, Jesus 'Chuy' Perez Contreras Verazzi Messi is too small and frail to work the land on the family farm near the Rio Bravo in Mexico. The local padre's tutoring reveals Jesus's unending curiosity and fertile mind. Noted Las Cruces, New Mexico attorney, and politician Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, agrees to take his nephew under his wing. Jesus 'reads law' with his uncle and shares adventures and adversity with the Fountain family and other historic Mesilla and Tularosa Valley citizens. His coming-of-age story will take you into the wild southwest, a brewing range war, a territory struggling toward statehood, courtroom dramas, and the adventures and adversities of a boy's quest for manhood.
The Mesilla
Author: Mary Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737154549
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
At 14 years old, Jesus 'Chuy' Perez Contreras Verazzi Messi is too small and frail to work the land on the family farm near the Rio Bravo in Mexico. The local padre's tutoring reveals Jesus's unending curiosity and fertile mind. Noted Las Cruces, New Mexico attorney, and politician Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, agrees to take his nephew under his wing. Jesus 'reads law' with his uncle and shares adventures and adversity with the Fountain family and other historic Mesilla and Tularosa Valley citizens. His coming-of-age story will take you into the wild southwest, a brewing range war, a territory struggling toward statehood, courtroom dramas, and the adventures and adversities of a boy's quest for manhood.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737154549
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
At 14 years old, Jesus 'Chuy' Perez Contreras Verazzi Messi is too small and frail to work the land on the family farm near the Rio Bravo in Mexico. The local padre's tutoring reveals Jesus's unending curiosity and fertile mind. Noted Las Cruces, New Mexico attorney, and politician Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, agrees to take his nephew under his wing. Jesus 'reads law' with his uncle and shares adventures and adversity with the Fountain family and other historic Mesilla and Tularosa Valley citizens. His coming-of-age story will take you into the wild southwest, a brewing range war, a territory struggling toward statehood, courtroom dramas, and the adventures and adversities of a boy's quest for manhood.
J. Paul Taylor
Author: Ana Pacheco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890135440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the best-kept secrets of the art world is that important center of postwar modernism: Taos, New Mexico.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890135440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the best-kept secrets of the art world is that important center of postwar modernism: Taos, New Mexico.
Water-resources Investigations Report
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
Author: William S. Kiser
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603442960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe, he left the New Mexico territory undefended, and it fell to forces under Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny in a bloodless occupation. In the ensuing two decades, the southern portion of New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley played a prominent role in the conflict that overtook the infant American territory. In Turmoil on the Rio Grande, William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-and-tumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing U.S. empire of the West. Kiser carefully limns in the culture into which the U.S. soldiers inserted themselves before going on to describe the armed forces that arrived and the actions in which they were involved. From the thirty-minute Battle of Brazito—in which the greenhorn recruits of the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, led by Col. Alexander Doniphan, vanquished Mexican troops through superior technology—to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the international boundary disputes, and the Confederate victory at Fort Fillmore, Kiser deftly describes the actions that made the Mesilla Valley important in American history.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603442960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe, he left the New Mexico territory undefended, and it fell to forces under Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny in a bloodless occupation. In the ensuing two decades, the southern portion of New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley played a prominent role in the conflict that overtook the infant American territory. In Turmoil on the Rio Grande, William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-and-tumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing U.S. empire of the West. Kiser carefully limns in the culture into which the U.S. soldiers inserted themselves before going on to describe the armed forces that arrived and the actions in which they were involved. From the thirty-minute Battle of Brazito—in which the greenhorn recruits of the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, led by Col. Alexander Doniphan, vanquished Mexican troops through superior technology—to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the international boundary disputes, and the Confederate victory at Fort Fillmore, Kiser deftly describes the actions that made the Mesilla Valley important in American history.
Proceedings
Author: Davenport Academy of Science, Davenport, Iowa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Report of Dona Ana County
Author: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Doña Ana County (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Doña Ana County (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Contributions to the Entomology of New Mexico
Author: Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Davenport Academy of Sciences, Davenport, Ia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Davenport (Iowa) Public Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description