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Sto caricando le informazioni... Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)di Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
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Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale's stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?"Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country." --Dallas Morning News ?"If you've never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale's new book will make you want to go there."--Austin American-Statesman Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)976.4932History and Geography North America South Central U.S. Texas West Texas Big Bend area Brewster CountyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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