Big Bend's ancient and modern past /edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf ; foreword by Lonn Taylor. 

 - First edition. 
 - College Station, Tex. :  Texas A&M University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/> Compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend studies. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Big Bend history and prehistory /  Prehistory meets history --  Cradles, cribs, and mattresses: prehistoric sleeping accommodations in the Chihuahuan Desert /  Comments on the prehistory of far northeastern Chihuahua, the La Junta District, and the Cielo Complex /  The rough run burial: a semisubterranean cairn burial from Brewster County, Texas /  The Río Conchos drainage: history, archaeology, significance /  History meets Native Americans --  Native American and Mestizo farming at La Junta de los Ríos /  The Peyote religion and Mescalero Apaches: an ethnohistorical view from West Texas /  Spanish-Indian relations in the Big Bend Region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries /  New light on Chisos Apache Indian Chief Alsate /  Settlers and settlements --  Settlements and settlers at La Junta de los Ríos, 1759-1822 /  Mexican American traditional foodways at La Junta de los Ríos /  Naming practices among the Black Seminole of the Texas-Mexico border region /  Transient clergy in the Trans-Pecos area, 1848-1892 /  William Rufus Shafter with the frontier army in the Big Bend /  Acculturation on the Rio Grande frontier: the founding of San José del Polvo and the family of Lucia Rede Madrid /  Glossary of archaeological terms /  Suggested readings /  Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf --  Solveig A. Turpin --  Robert J. Mallouf --  William A. Cloud --  J. Charles Kelley --  Enrique R. Madrid --  Stacy B. Schaefer --  Elizabeth A.H. John --  Franklin W. Daugherty and Luis López Elizondo --  Oakah L. Jones --  Joe S. Graham --  Mischa B. Adams --  Robert E. Wright --  Paul H. Carlson --  Earl H. Elam --  Robert J. Mallouf --  Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781623491055 9781461944560 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prehistoric peoples--Texas--Big Bend Region.<br/>Ethnology--Texas--Big Bend Region.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F392  / .B543 2013