Cowboy Reunions Of Las Vegas New Mexico

Author : Pat Romero
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614238119

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Cowboy Reunions of Las Vegas, New Mexico by Pat Romero Pdf

For nearly a half-century, Las Vegas, New Mexico, held "Wild West" adventures rivaling Cheyenne's Frontier Days, the Calgary Stampede, and Oregon's Pendleton Round Up. The San Miguel County seat annually hosted full-dress cowpunchers, Native Americans, ranchers, dance bands, artists and writers, moviemakers, and rodeo performers. The Las Vegas Cowboys' Reunion became legendary in western lore, drawing such ten-gallon names as Tom Mix, Jim Shoulders, Montana Belle, Prairie Rose Henderson, and Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Dick Bills and his nephew, Glen Campbell, played at the "Big Balls," and the reunions drew famous western artists, such as Randall Davey. Join author Pat Romero for these reunion tales based on Git Fer Vegas, Cowboy , the exhibit she curated at the City of Las Vegas Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection.

Author : Mitch Barker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467130660

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Las Vegas by Mitch Barker Pdf

Las Vegas, New Mexico, is 70 years older than the Nevada city of the same name. Eleven years after its founding in 1835, it was the first settlement in Mexico reached by invading US troops in the Mexican-American War. In later years, it was an intensely violent place, an equal to Dodge City and Tombstone. Gunmen such as Billy the Kid, Mysterious Dave Mather, Doc Holliday, and others walked the streets of Las Vegas. The town also built grand houses and mercantile buildings. It rivaled Albuquerque and Santa Fe for importance and boasted one of the state's two streetcar systems. Here, Teddy Roosevelt announced his availability to serve as president, and Tom Mix filmed his earliest movies.

Author : Dorothy Audrey Simpson
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Journalists
ISBN : 9780865346888

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Audrey of the Mountains by Dorothy Audrey Simpson Pdf

Simpson offers a biography of her mother, one of the first female journalists in New Mexico who was known for her informative, influential, and inspiring writing.

Author : Baldwin G. Burr
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439656082

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Historic Ranches of Northeastern New Mexico by Baldwin G. Burr Pdf

In 1866, Charles Goodnight and his partner Oliver Loving began rounding up feral cattle in Texas, forming herds to be driven north into the immense unoccupied grazing land in northeastern New Mexico. The counties of Colfax, Mora, Harding, Union, and San Miguel became the location of some of the great historic ranches of the West. From the 11,000-acre Chase Ranch in Colfax County to the 650,000-acre Bell Ranch in San Miguel County, these ranches have been home to several generations of ranching families. Pioneer ranchers such as Manley M. Chase, Frank and Charles Springer, Samuel Watrous, and Albert K. Mitchell established a tradition of perseverance, self-sufficiency, and sustainable range management that continues to the present day.

Author : Gloria H. Giroux
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663221797

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Santa Fe Heat by Gloria H. Giroux Pdf

The 1980s were a miasma of new thoughts, fashions, music, and ideas and for many people a respite from the turbulent ’70s. The city of Santa Fe is bursting with the new veneer. Even so, there are dark clouds roiling over the city and its inhabitants, stoking fires that will consume the innocent as well as the guilty. The next generation of the Grayhawk clan and their close relatives and friends has begun to make its mark, many choosing the professions of their parents or friends. Although their development is generally positive, the plague of the decade has infiltrated their lives and changed the course of many. Besides the personal impacts of life, the clan finds themselves battling evil on two fronts. One antagonist is executing vengeance on people who have wrought inhuman savagery on the world, seeking true “eye for an eye” justice. The other seeks a much more personal vengeance directed at Memphis Grayhawk and his family and lurks in the background until the time is ready to strike. The passion and determination of all factions heats up until it bursts into a roaring conflagration. Will it consume only the unremorseful perpetrators, or will the flames of hatred burn everything in sight, leaving only ash and destruction?

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780793308071

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The Hard-to-Believe-but-True! Book of New Mexico History, Mystery, Trivia, Legend, Lore, Humor and More by Carole Marsh Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : New Mexico
ISBN : UCR:31210017189349

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New Mexico Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clifford P. Westermeier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803298439

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Man, Beast, Dust by Clifford P. Westermeier Pdf

Traces the history of the rodeo and describes rodeos in small towns and big cities

Author : Lynn Irwin Perrigo
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Las Vegas (N.M.)
ISBN : 9780865347854

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Gateway to Glorieta by Lynn Irwin Perrigo Pdf

Perrigo addresses issues in the development of Las Vegas and the American Southwest that remain quite relevant in the 21st century. Among these is an increased socio-cultural diversity that impacts the hegemony of this population and its effects on intercultural relations.

Author : Cori Knudten,Maren Bzdek
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806167732

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Crossroads of Change by Cori Knudten,Maren Bzdek Pdf

Encompassing nearly seven thousand acres amid the woodlands of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico, the land that is now Pecos National Historical Park has witnessed thousands of years of cultural history stretching back to the Native peoples who long ago inhabited the pueblos of Pecos, then known as Cicuye. Once a trading center where Pueblo Indians, Spanish soldiers and settlers, and Plains Indians encountered one another, not always peacefully, Pecos was a stop on the Santa Fe Trail in the early 1800s and, later, on the first railroad in New Mexico. It was the site of a critical Civil War battle and in the twentieth century became a tourist destination. This book tells the story of how, over five centuries, cultures and peoples converged at Pecos and transformed its environment, ultimately shaping the landscape that greets park visitors today. Spanning the period from 1540, when Spaniards first arrived, into the twenty-first century, Crossroads of Change focuses on the history of the natural and historic resources Pecos National Historical Park now protects and interprets: the ruins of Pecos Pueblo and a Spanish mission church, a stage stop along the Santa Fe Trail, the Civil War battlefield of Glorieta Pass, a twentieth-century cattle ranch, and the national park itself. In an engaging style, authors Cori Knudten and Maren Bzdek detail the transformations of Pecos over time, often driven by the collision of different cultures, such as that between the Franciscan friars and Pecos Indians in the seventeenth century, and by the introduction of new animals, crops, and agricultural practices—but also by the natural forces of fire, drought, and erosion. Located on a natural trade route, Pecos has long served as a portal between different cultures and environments. Documenting this transformation over the ages, Crossroads of Change also, perhaps, shows us Pecos National Historical Park as a portal to the future.

Author : Clay Risen
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501144004

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The Crowded Hour by Clay Risen Pdf

The “gripping” (The Washington Post) story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men, spread around the country—hardly an army at all. In desperation, the Rough Riders were born. A unique group of volunteers, ranging from Ivy League athletes to Arizona cowboys and led by Theodore Roosevelt, they helped secure victory in Cuba in a series of gripping, bloody fights across the island. Roosevelt called their charge in the Battle of San Juan Hill his “crowded hour”—a turning point in his life, one that led directly to the White House. “The instant I received the order,” wrote Roosevelt, “I sprang on my horse and then my ‘crowded hour’ began.” As The Crowded Hour reveals, it was a turning point for America as well, uniting the country and ushering in a new era of global power. “A revelatory history of America’s grasp for power” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Both a portrait of these men, few of whom were traditional soldiers, and of the Spanish-American War itself, The Crowded Hour dives deep into the daily lives and struggles of Roosevelt and his regiment. Using diaries, letters, and memoirs, Risen illuminates an influential moment in American history: a war of only six months’ time that dramatically altered the United States’ standing in the world. “Fast-paced, carefully researched…Risen is a gifted storyteller who brings context to the chaos of war. The Crowded Hour feels like the best type of war reporting—told with a clarity that takes nothing away from the horrors of the battlefield” (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : NWU:35556039807649

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Miller
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447495338

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New Mexico - A Guide To The Colorful State by Joseph Miller Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015075045933

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The Santa Fe Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carla Chlouber
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738552453

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The Oklahoma Cowboy Band by Carla Chlouber Pdf

The Oklahoma Cowboy Band was the first western string band in the nation to broadcast over the radio and appear on vaudeville, drawing large audiences throughout the Midwest and Northeast. The band began in Ripley as Billy McGintyas Cowboy Band and first played over radio station KFRU in Bristow in May 1925. Billy McGinty was a Rough Rider with Theodore Roosevelt and performed in Buffalo Billas Wild West Show. The public responded to the broadcast of his band with a steady stream of telegrams, telephone calls, and letters asking for more of that old-time cowboy music. Soon Otto Gray and his wife, Mommie, of Stillwater joined the band, with both performing rope tricks, Mommie singing sad songs, and their son, Owen, performing comedy routines as athe Uke Buster.a Renamed Otto Gray and His Oklahoma Cowboys, the band traveled for a decade to such cities as St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse. Its custom-built Cadillacs drew crowds wherever the band went. By the early 1930s, other acts were copying the bandas cowboy themes and songs, and Otto Grayas lawyers threatened legal action. The lawyers met with only limited success, though, and today the cowboy image is firmly established in country music, thanks in large part to the early success of Billy McGinty, Otto Gray, and the Oklahoma Cowboy Band.