I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant 9781625110220, 2002073956

From the Republic of the Rio Grande: A Personal History of the Place and the People 9780292744073

The Republic of the Rio Grande had a brief and tenuous existence (1838–1840) before most of it was reabsorbed by Mexico

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Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West 9780813598857

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the li

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Early Puebloan Occupations at Tesuque By-Pass and in the Upper Rio Grande Valley 9780932206381, 9781951519308

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Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley 9780520389601

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley over the past one hundred years from Ame

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Early Puebloan Occupations at Tesuque By-Pass and in the Upper Rio Grande Valley 9781951519308, 9780932206381

Charles H. McNutt reports on excavations at the Tesuque By-Pass site in the northern Rio Grande Valley, north of Santa F

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A History of the Valley of Virginia

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The Valley of the Lower Thames 1640 to 1850 9781442615168

Few are the regions in the province of Ontario so rich and rewarding to the reader interested in local history as the va

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Work and control in a peasant economy: a history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960 9780299124908, 9780299124946

Peasants in southern Africa have too often been portrayed as technologically backward, chronically underemployed, and po

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Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande 9780292761070

Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is

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A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877 9780806161570, 9780806160085, 9780806161563, 0806161574

During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the N

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