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This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico.

An informal, highly readable history of the University of Texas at Austin told through the stories of some of its most colorful characters and era-defining events.

This book gathers over forty of Texas humorist Cactus Pryor's favorite radio essays, translating "ear words into eye words," as he puts it.

Leading U.S. and Mexican scholars investigate the groundbreaking transition from foraging to farming in the North American Southwest.

This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of the little-known prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Northeastern Trans-Pecos region.

The author draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America.

A line soldier's account of the Civil War without heroics.

Recollections of eighteen years of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota.

The history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico through the mid-twentieth century.

This study of the German community of early twentieth century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience.

This book examines the attitudes toward population planning of Brazilian government officials and other elites-bishops, politicians, labor leaders, and business owners-in comparison with mass public opinion.

The history of the influential Texas Land and Development Company from its inception in 1912 to its final dissolution in January 1956.

LeFors's life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years.

This work deals with the technological problems faced by the Chinese in taming the destructive river and also focuses on cultural attitudes that have governed the Chinese response to nature.

A twentieth-century Mexican philosopher considers the culture of his native land.

In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Diaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.

A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.

The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.

The authors present research showing that masculinity and femininity do not relate negatively to each other, thus supporting a dualistic rather than a bipolar conception of these two psychological dimensions.

Indian trader, rancher, harbor developer, oil impresario-these are the many worlds of one of the least chronicled but most fascinating characters of the American West. In the early, bustling years of the frontier, a brazen young man named William McDole Lee moved from Wisconsin to Kansas and then to Texas to forge a life for himself. Becoming a driving entrepreneurial force in Texas's development, Lee soon garnered the alliances and resources necessary to shape the financial destinies of disparate groups throughout the state. His story is expertly told in Donald F. Schofield's Indians, Cattle, Ships, and Oil. Beginning in 1869 as a trader to the southern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and fort provisioner to troops garrisoned at Camp Supply, Indian Territory, Lee gained a partner and amassed a fortune in short order from trading buffalo hides and robes. Vast herds of buffalo grazing on the southern plains were killed largely on his order. When buffalo were no longer a profitable commodity, Lee tackled his next challenge-the cattle trade. He began with herds branded LR that grazed on pastures near Fort Supply. Then came his LE herd in the Texas Panhandle. Another partnership, with noted cattle rancher Lucien Scott, resulted in the vast LS ranch, one of the most successful operations of its day. Lee even introduced a new breed of cattle, the Aberdeen-Angus, to the western range. But as his partnership faded, Lee moved on to his next undertaking-the development of Texas' first deep-water harbor. In 1888, Lee and other financiers put up one million dollars to finance a dream: opening international trade from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the mainland at the mouth of the Brazos River. Their Brazos River Channel and Dock Company was to construct, own, and operate a deep-water harbor at Velasco, with a railroad link to Houston. Though threats of financial disaster loomed large, the Velasco facility was to welcome, in its day, tugs, barges, and three-masted schooners and to provide impetus for Houston's boom. Yet with success, the mercurial Lee turned to yet another challenge-oil. Starting still another partnership, Lee committed himself to prospecting for oil on the West Columbia Ridge in Brazoria County. Lee and crew struck oil in 1907, developing one of the first producing wells of Brazoria County, but inadequate drilling equipment hampered further fruitful exploration. Lee moved his rigs to the famed Spindletop, where he perfected the technique of shallow drilling. Though spectacular success in the oil business eluded him, Lee's accomplishments set him squarely among the great entrepreneurs of the Texas oil industry. Lee's exploits led him to roles in some of the most dramatic moments in Texas and the West-Indian uprisings, buffalo hunts, political scandals, cowboy strikes and shoot-outs, railroad promotions, oil-well blow-outs and gushers. The people he encountered are the famous and infamous of western history: Cheyenne Chief Little Robe and the outlaw "e;Hurricane Bill"e; Martin; Indian Agent John D. Miles and Major General John Pope; outlaws Tom Harris and William Bonney, and Sheriff Pat Garrett. Altogether, Lee's biography vividly shows one man's manipulation of people and events during the settlement of the American frontier.

This book, a much-needed critical study of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, and Lezama's essays, is an exploration in reading, one that highlights and preserves the essential and persistent contradictions in Lezama's theory and practice of literature.

An analysis of three of Lorca's plays, providing a new view of Lorca as a dramatist and presenting new material to students of symbology.

An English translation of the first major Spanish American novel to protest the plight of native peoples.

Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle-South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth.

An aesthetic history of a Mexican art school.