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Inventing the Fiesta City
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
Categories: Festivals
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Her
Inventing the Fiesta City
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-17 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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The story of how the multicultural identity of San Antonio, Texas, has been shaped and polished through its annual fiesta since the late nineteenth century.
Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: John Pen La Farge
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11 - Publisher: UNM Press

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The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe du
Intimate Frontiers
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Albert L. Hurtado
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-04 - Publisher: UNM Press

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Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.
Tularosa, Last of the Frontier West
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: UNM Press

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The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.