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Griffith (director, Southwest Folklore Center, U. of Arizona) examines some of the distinctive folk expressions of the region around the border between the US and Mexico where it divides Arizona and Sonora. Among the topics are patterns of cemetery art and decoration, painted glass frames for holy pictures, a statue of a black Christ known as the Lord of Poison, and a Mormon cowboy ballad.
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Crabb became involved in trying to develop a colony in Mexico and lost. After surrender, he and his companions were murdered. The incident greatly strained United States - Mexico relations. Crabb's brother-in-law, one of the two survivors of the massacre, was the father of the author.
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"A land where some streams ran with gold. A landscape nearly empty of inhabitants in the wake of Apache raids from the north. And a former desert transformed by irrigation into vast fields of wheat and cotton. This was and is the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico." "In this cultural historical geography, Robert C. West explores the dual geographic "personality" of this part of Mexico's northern frontier. Utilizing the idea of "old" and "new" landscapes,...
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When Catholics in the Southwest ask God or a saint for help, many of them do not merely pray. They also promise or present a gift - a tiny metal object known as a milagro. A milagro, which means "miracle" in Spanish, depicts the object for which a miracle is sought, such as a crippled leg or a new house. Milagros are offered for everything people pray for, and so they can represent almost anything imaginable - arms, lungs, hearts, and eyes; men, women,...
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Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain?s other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza enacted a series of changes in the colony?s governance that helped preserve it as a Spanish territory and strengthen the larger empire to which it belonged. Although Anza is best known for his travels to California as a young...
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Contains an edition of Bandelier's original French text, Histoire de la colonisation et des missions de Sonora, Chihuahua, Nouveau-Mexique, et Arizona jusqu'à l'année 1700 (edited from the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Vat. Lat. 14111), along with chapter-by-chapter English summaries and introductions in English.
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