Big Bend's ancient & modern past
By: edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf ; foreword by Lonn Taylor
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: College Station, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781623490225; 9781623491055
Subjects: History; Prehistoric peoples; Ethnology
Other titles: Big Bend's ancient and modern past
Notes: Compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Big Bend history and prehistory / Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf; title: Prehistory meets history; title: Cradles, cribs, and mattresses: prehistoric sleeping accommodations in the Chihuahuan Desert / Solveig A. Turpin; title: Comments on the prehistory of far northeastern Chihuahua, the La Junta District, and the Cielo Complex / Robert J. Mallouf; title: The rough run burial: a semisubterranean cairn burial from Brewster County, Texas / William A. Cloud; title: The Río Conchos drainage: history, archaeology, significance / J. Charles Kelley; title: History meets Native Americans; title: Native American and Mestizo farming at La Junta de los Ríos / Enrique R. Madrid; title: The Peyote religion and Mescalero Apaches: an ethnohistorical view from West Texas / Stacy B. Schaefer; title: Spanish-Indian relations in the Big Bend Region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Elizabeth A.H. John; title: New light on Chisos Apache Indian Chief Alsate / Franklin W. Daugherty and Luis López Elizondo; title: Settlers and settlements; title: Settlements and settlers at La Junta de los Ríos, 1759-1822 / Oakah L. Jones; title: Mexican American traditional foodways at La Junta de los Ríos / Joe S. Graham; title: Naming practices among the Black Seminole of the Texas-Mexico border region / Mischa B. Adams; title: Transient clergy in the Trans-Pecos area, 1848-1892 / Robert E. Wright; title: William Rufus Shafter with the frontier army in the Big Bend / Paul H. Carlson; title: Acculturation on the Rio Grande frontier: the founding of San José del Polvo and the family of Lucia Rede Madrid / Earl H. Elam; title: Glossary of archaeological terms / Robert J. Mallouf; title: Suggested readings / Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf.