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From Chapultepec to Castle Gap

Author : Roy E Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book From Chapultepec to Castle Gap written by Roy E Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest treasures thought still to be hidden in America is the shipment of the Mexican treasury just before Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by a Mexican nationalist firing squad. He sent his wife ahead early to Europe to receive the entire treasure, but neither he, nor the treasure ever made it. Six Missourians hired to assist the Austrian Guards in taking a 15-wagon team train in which the treasure was disguised as flour barrels from Mexico through West Texas to the port of Galveston, killed the wagon masters somewhere between Horsehead Crossing over the Pecos River and Castle Gap, a deep cut "V" between Castle Mountain and King Mountain. Estimates of the value of the treasure continue to escalate over time as the gold, silver, minted coins, metal plate, and jewels achieve greater historical value, not to mention the intrinsic price increases of the gold and silver. This historical fiction is based on fact. The treasure has never been found. The last estimated worth was over $10,000,000. I now estimate the value to be at least $200,000,000, although it could be considered priceless for its historic value. Only one man survived the trip after he and his six friends shot the entire wagon master crew, and then were killed by a marauding Comanche band themselves. He made it to Fort Concho, but was barely alive. As he lay dying, he drew a map of the Castle Gap area with markers of where the treasure was buried and gave it to Doctor Black, an appropriate name for the occasion. Dr. Black got together with a friend several months later and set out to find the buried treasure. They had not counted on the rapidly shifting dirt and sand, or the rapid degeneration of vegetation from the raw powerful gusts of West Texas storms. They never found the treasure. Countless legal and illegal parties blasted holes at night with dynamite on a ranchers property, and then tried to find the treasure by day, have searched over the past 150 years plus, but failed. Emperor Maximilian lost his life, Carlota, his empress went mad. The treasure sits somewhere laughing at the world.

Chasing the Sun

Author : Edward Joseph Beverly
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865346038
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Sun written by Edward Joseph Beverly and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chasing the Sun" is a guide to Western fiction with more than 1,350 entries, including 59 reviews of the author's personal favorites, organized around theme.

After the Alamo

Author : Burt Hirschfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Alamo written by Burt Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mexico gained her independence from Spain in 1821, she extended an invitation to Americans to settle in her northern province of Texas. By 1830 with more than 20,000 Americans there, friction arose when the Mexicans attempted to halt further immigration, free the Negro slaves, and refuse self-government to the province. The Texans rebelled in 1836 and the Mexicans marched in and won a bloody victory at the Alamo. What happened after the Alamo when the United States declared war on Mexico is one of the most significant chapters in the story of the growth of the American nation. The author has captured the color, vitality and lusty frontier spirit which gave shape and sustenance to the men, the ideas and the deeds of that era and that war.

Life in Mexico

Author : Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520907019
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Life in Mexico written by Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-09-30 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.

Appletons' guide to Mexico, including a chapter on Guatemala

Author : Alfred Ronald Conkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Appletons' guide to Mexico, including a chapter on Guatemala written by Alfred Ronald Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Concise History of Mexico

Author : Brian R. Hamnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521852846
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Mexico written by Brian R. Hamnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.

Appleton's Guide to Mexico

Author : Alfred Ronald Conkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Appleton's Guide to Mexico written by Alfred Ronald Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appletons' Guide to Mexico

Author : Alfred Ronald Conkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Appletons' Guide to Mexico written by Alfred Ronald Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Training Ground

Author : Martin Dugard
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316032537
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Training Ground written by Martin Dugard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not alone: Sherman, Davis, Jackson-nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers had been forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey. The Mexican War has faded from our national memory, but it was a struggle of enormous significance: the first U.S. war waged on foreign soil; and it nearly doubled our nation. At this fascinating juncture of American history, a group of young men came together to fight as friends, only years later to fight as enemies. This is their story. Full of dramatic battles, daring rescues, secret missions, soaring triumphs and tragic losses, THE TRAINING GROUND is history at its finest.

Appleton's Guide to Mexico

Author : Conkling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appleton's Guide to Mexico written by Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never Again: Texas 1821-1848

Author : Clayton Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Never Again: Texas 1821-1848 written by Clayton Williams and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action is the theme for this period of Texas history; land-hungry settlers attracted by endless acres to be cultivated; warlike Indians determined to keep them out; a Mexican government controlled by despotic policies. The stage was set for trouble.

American Military History Volume 1

Author : Army Center of Military History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944961404
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

Agent of Destiny

Author : John S. D. Eisenhower
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131283
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Agent of Destiny written by John S. D. Eisenhower and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln’s top soldier during the first six months of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early expansion and consolidation of the American republic. John S. D. Eisenhower explores how Scott, who served under fourteen presidents, played a leading role in the development of the United States Army from a tiny, loosely organized, politics-dominated establishment to a disciplined professional force capable of effective and sustained campaigning.

Mighty Stonewall

Author : Frank E. Vandiver
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890963913
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Mighty Stonewall written by Frank E. Vandiver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive biography of Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson and traces his life and military career from his childhood and entrance into West Point, years of teaching at the Virginia Military Institute, Civil War campaigns, and death after the Battle of Chancellorsville in May of 1963.

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

Author : C. Mayo
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1936071614
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire written by C. Mayo and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fictionalized account of the reign of the archduke of Austria, Maximilian von Hapsburg, as emperor of Mexico.

Borderlands

Author : Gloria Anzaldúa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879960954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Borderlands written by Gloria Anzaldúa and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival research and a comprehensive literature review while contextualizing the book within her theories and writings before and after its 1987 publication, this critical edition elucidates Anzaldúa's complex composition process and its centrality in the development of her philosophy. It opens with two introductory studies; offers a corrected text, explanatory footnotes, translations, and four archival appendices; and closes with an updated bibliography of Anzaldúa's works, an extensive scholarly bibliography on Borderlands, a brief biography, and a short discussion of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. "Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez's meticulous archival work and Norma Elia Cantú's life experience and expertise converge to offer a stunning resource for Anzaldúa scholars; for writers, artists, and activists inspired by her work; and for everyone. Hereafter, no study of Borderlands will be complete without this beautiful, essential reference."--Paola Bacchetta

The Blood Contingent

Author : Stephen Neufeld
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826358055
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Blood Contingent written by Stephen Neufeld and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the pursuit of the modern, the armed forces served as instrument, model, and metaphor for national progress. I examine in this book how the military experience, as representative of the process, failed or fulfilled aspects of the broad national transition towards hegemony and sovereignty. This is the first work combining personnel records and military literature with cultural sources to address the setting of military life for soldiers and their families rather than politics or officers. In connection with nation formation and identity, this book moves away from studies of the army as an institution to broaden understandings of inculcations and the limits and fault lines of building Mexico as a nation. More social and cultural in historical outlook, I examine the creation of political cultures rooted in or derived from the personal experiences of the lower ranks. In doing so, the book removes some of the privileged view that official narratives emphasize in order to explain the making of a bureaucratic institution from the bottom up, and to more clearly describe how this process both encouraged the development of nationalism and limited it in important ways. In this fashion I build on the works of scholars whose focus has centered more on officers, education, and political conflicts"--Introduction.