Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian

Book by Moises, Rosalio, Kelley, Jane Holden, Holden, William Curry

Biographies & Memoirs

Kelley, Jane H.

Moisés, Rosalio

Holden, William Curry

Community & Culture

Univ of Nebraska Pr

"The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with [his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative."-Booklist

A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian

History

Kelley, Jane Holden

Americas

Bison Books

Book by Holden, W. C., Holden, William Curry

Rollie Burns, Or, an Account of the Ranching Industry on the South Plains

Texas A & M Univ Pr

For much of the first half century after statehood, West Texas remained a frontier wilderness and—unlike the expanding cities in East and Central Texas—sparsely populated with Anglo-American settlements. The scarce rainfalls, freezing blue northers, dusty winds, and scorching heat waves dissuaded many Texans from homesteading west of the U.S. Army's frontier fort system. For decades, only the hardiest attempted to forge their brand of civilization on the West Texas plains. Those who endured faced considerable difficulties in providing for themselves and their families. Many abandoned their homesteads in favor of larger, eastern towns where livelihoods were not so tenuous and the environment not so daunting. Yet as the nineteenth century advanced, so did the westward line of settlement. Cattle ranching ensured the rise of schools, churches, and towns as the great ranches of West Texas fed the nation's ever-growing demand for beef."Indispensable to students of Texas history and invaluable to those interested in the general social aspects of the vast subhumid region of the United States."—Walter Prescott Webb

Alkali Trails: Social and Economic Movements of the Texas Frontier, 1846–1900 (Double Mountain Books)

Business & Money

Economics

Texas Tech University Press

Teresita

Stemmer House Pub

Born in 1873, she was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner and an Indian woman. The beautiful spiritual Teresita played a dramatic role in the Mexican revolution.

Stemmer House Publishers

A Ranching Saga tells the story of father and son pioneer ranchers in the Southwest. Around the turn of the century, William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell were integral to the growing ranching industry in Texas and Oklahoma. Through newspaper accounts, legal documents, personal correspondence, and interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, A Ranching Saga recounts the lives of these two keen businessmen, proud civic leaders, and philanthropists. What is revealed is a legacy of hard work, moral character, and compassion, as well as a close relationship with the land. Texas historian William Curry Holden sifts through correspondence, reports and statistics, and extensive research to tell of three generations of the Halsell family, from their arrival in Texas in 1854 to the mid-twentieth century. Holden enriches the family narrative with personal accounts of the places, geology, flora, fauna, weather, economics, and history of the region. He interviewed more than 150 people to understand the characters and personalities of the two men whose cultural influence on Texas and the Southwest region spans more than a century. Illustrated with nearly two dozen drawings by José Cisneros , A Ranching Saga is the biography of family whose destiny was realized in the cattle they nurtured, the land they loved, and the people they encouraged along the way.

A Ranching Saga: The Lives of William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell

Biography & History

Maverick Books

Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico: The History, Culture and Anthropology of the Yaqui Native Americans

Pantianos Classics

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