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Download or read book High and Dry written by G. Emlen Hall and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High and Dry tells the story of a river in an arid region and the long history of litigation between Texas and New Mexico as they battle over water rights.
Book Synopsis Pecos River Style Rock Art by : James Burr Harrison Macrae
Download or read book Pecos River Style Rock Art written by James Burr Harrison Macrae and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms. While full understanding of the meaning of these images is abstruse, archaeologists and other scholars have identified what they believe to be patterns and religious themes, mixed with what could be figures and objects from everyday life in the local hunter-gatherer culture as it existed in the region centuries before the arrival of colonizing Europeans. Although interpretation of these pictographs remains controversial, in Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography, James Burr Harrison Macrae contributes to the beginnings of a syntactic “grammar” for these images that can be applied in diverse contexts without direct reference to any particular interpretation. “The strength of structural-iconographic analysis,” Macrae writes, “is that it relies on repetitive patterns rather than idiosyncratic information, such as trying to make broad inferences from one or only a few sites.” Pecos River Style Rock Art offers the framework of an empirical methodology for understanding these ancient artworks.
Download or read book Bitter Waters written by Patrick Dearen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.
Book Synopsis From Presidio to the Pecos River by : Orville B. Shelburne, Jr.
Download or read book From Presidio to the Pecos River written by Orville B. Shelburne, Jr. and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained by a joint boundary commission effort. The section of the boundary along the Rio Grande from Presidio to the mouth of the Pecos River was arguably the most challenging, and it was surveyed by two American parties, one led by civilian surveyor M. T. W. Chandler in 1852, and the second led by Lieutenant Nathaniel Michler in 1853. Our understanding of these two surveys across the greater Big Bend has long been limited to the official reports and maps housed in the National Archives and never widely published. The discovery by Orville B. Shelburne of the journal kept by Dr. Charles C. Parry, surgeon-botanist-geologist for the 1852 party, has dramatically enriched the story by giving us a firsthand view of the Chandler boundary survey as it unfolded. Parry’s journal forms the basis of From Presidio to the Pecos River, which documents the day-to-day working of the survey teams. The story Shelburne tells is one of scientific exploration under duress—surveyors stranded in towering canyons overnight without food or shelter; piloting inflatable rubber boats down wild rivers; rising to the challenges of a profoundly remote area, including the possibility of Indian attack. Shelburne’s comparison of the original boundary maps with their modern counterparts reveals the limitations of terrain and equipment on the survey teams. Shelburne's book provides a window on the adventure, near disaster, and true accomplishment of the surveyors’ work in documenting the course of the Rio Grande across the Big Bend region.
Book Synopsis The Pecos River Joint Investigation by : United States. National Resources Planning Board
Download or read book The Pecos River Joint Investigation written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pecos River Joint Investigation by : United States. National Resources Planning Board
Download or read book The Pecos River Joint Investigation written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pecos River Compact by : Pecos River Commission
Download or read book Pecos River Compact written by Pecos River Commission and published by . This book was released on 1948* with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Causes of Depletion of the Pecos River in New Mexico by : Harold Edgar Thomas
Download or read book Causes of Depletion of the Pecos River in New Mexico written by Harold Edgar Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effects of recent ground-water development, drought, and phreatophytes.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :124 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Pecos River--Red Bluff Reservoir by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Download or read book Pecos River--Red Bluff Reservoir written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lower Pecos River, Pandale to Lake Amistad by : Louis F. Aulbach
Download or read book The Lower Pecos River, Pandale to Lake Amistad written by Louis F. Aulbach and published by Louis F. Aulbach. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Pecos River Project by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Download or read book Pecos River Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (84) S.J. Res. 155.
Book Synopsis Pecos River Compact: Compact Entered Into by the States of New Mexico and Texas Relating to the Waters of the Pecos River Together with the Report of the Engineering Advisory Committee to the Pecos River Compact Commission by :
Download or read book Pecos River Compact: Compact Entered Into by the States of New Mexico and Texas Relating to the Waters of the Pecos River Together with the Report of the Engineering Advisory Committee to the Pecos River Compact Commission written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Possible Improvement of Quality of Water of the Pecos River by Diversion of Brine at Malaga Bend, Eddy County, New Mexico by : Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division
Download or read book Possible Improvement of Quality of Water of the Pecos River by Diversion of Brine at Malaga Bend, Eddy County, New Mexico written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crossing Rio Pecos by : Patrick Dearen
Download or read book Crossing Rio Pecos written by Patrick Dearen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pecos River flows snake-like out of New Mexico and across West Texas before striking the Rio Grande. In frontier Texas, the Pecos was more moat than river—a deadly barrier of quicksand, treacherous currents, and impossibly steep banks. Only at its crossings, with legendary names such as Horsehead and Pontoon, could travelers hope to gain passage. Even if the river proved obliging, Indian raiders and outlaws often did not. Long after irrigation and dams rendered the river a polluted trickle, Patrick Dearen went seeking out the crossings and the stories behind them. In Crossing Rio Pecos—a follow-up to his Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier—he draws upon years of research to relate the history and folklore of all the crossings—Horsehead, Pontoon, Pope’s, Emigrant, Salt, Spanish Dam, Adobe, “S,” and Lancaster. Meticulously documented, Crossing Rio Pecos emerges as the definitive study of these gateways which were so vital to the opening of the western frontier.
Book Synopsis Pecos River Basin Report by : Pecos River Compact Commission. Engineering Advisory Committee
Download or read book Pecos River Basin Report written by Pecos River Compact Commission. Engineering Advisory Committee and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pecos River Commission of New Mexico and Texas by : Pecos River Commission
Download or read book The Pecos River Commission of New Mexico and Texas written by Pecos River Commission and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pecos River and Tributaries, Texas and New Mexico by :
Download or read book Pecos River and Tributaries, Texas and New Mexico written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
