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Quicksilver Mining In The Terlingua Area
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Book Synopsis Quicksilver by : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Download or read book Quicksilver written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Terlingua achieved some notoriety as the site of the annual World Championship Chili Cookoff, the ghost town was the bustling center of the mercury mining industry in the United States. Quicksilver tells the story of the company town and its feudal lord, Chicago industrialist Howard E. Perry, who built a hilltop mansion overlooking the dry domain. Based on many primary sources, this solidly researched and historically sound book tells of profit, power, and loss; of U.S. Army protection from the effects of revolution south of the border; of Depression-era maneuverings and labor unrest; and of a region that holds growing fascination for thousands of visitors each year. Color and authenticity come from the author's interviews with such individuals as Robert Cartledge, who for nearly three decades worked as store clerk, purchasing agent, and finally general manager of the Chisos Mining Company in Terlingua.
Book Synopsis Quicksilver Mining in the Terlingua Area by : Kathryn B. Walker
Download or read book Quicksilver Mining in the Terlingua Area written by Kathryn B. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quicksilver Mining in the Terlingua Area was originally written by Kathryn B. Walker as the thesis to fulfill the requirements for her master's degree. Her advisor, Dr. Clifford B. Casey, encouraged her to publish it. But it wasn't until years after her death that her daughters were able to bring her dream of publication to fruition. This book is masterfully structured and meticulously researched. It takes the reader on a comprehensive ride explaining mining in Terlingua from a technical, geological, sociological, and economic perspective.
Book Synopsis Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas by : Robert Giertz Yates
Download or read book Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas written by Robert Giertz Yates and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Terlingua Mercury Deposit, Brewster and Presidio Counties, Texas by : A. M. Evans
Download or read book Terlingua Mercury Deposit, Brewster and Presidio Counties, Texas written by A. M. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Porch written by W. Chase Peeler and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sunbaked Terlingua, Texas (pop., a few hundred), residents joke that there is a musician under every rock. Located ten miles from Mexico in one of the remotest corners of the United States, the town had a recording studio before it had a school, a well-stocked grocery store, or even a water utility. Open jam sessions are a daily ritual, and some songwriters make a living from their craft despite being thousands of miles from New York or Nashville. Why does such a tiny and isolated place ring with singing and guitars? Based on more than two years of on-the-ground research, On the Porch tells the story of this small but remarkable community. Chase Peeler invites us into the music, introducing us to a cast of characters as unique as the town itself. He reveals how novices and experts perform together—a rarity in contemporary America. He recounts the devastation brought on by a border closure and describes how music is once again uniting people across the Rio Grande. He considers the impact of gentrification in an off-the-grid paradise, and how this threatens to transform a precarious musical ecosystem. On the Porch is a celebration of human musicality, of the role that music plays and can play in our lives, both in Terlingua and beyond.
Book Synopsis Quicksilver Mining in the Terlingua Area by : Kathryn B. Walker
Download or read book Quicksilver Mining in the Terlingua Area written by Kathryn B. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas by : Harold Lloyd James
Download or read book Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas written by Harold Lloyd James and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the geology of a mining district that has produced 150,000 flasks of quicksilver.
Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Book Synopsis Boquillas Crossing by : Rawles Williams
Download or read book Boquillas Crossing written by Rawles Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is January of 1915 when destiny and a dangerous scheme bring two former West Point classmates together once again. Samuel Jenkins has lured Daniel Taylor to Terlingua, Texas, with the promise of earning high wages at a quicksilver mine. Although Taylor suspects Jenkins motives, he has no idea that Jenkins is secretly hoping to involve him in a fraudulent deal to rob Pancho Villa of his remaining wealth before the war ends. Upon arriving, Taylor forms a tenuous friendship with a nave commander who is awed by Taylors experiences, yet disturbed by his relationship with infamous war pro?teers. It is not long before Lieutenant Jack Thompson is ordered to assist Marshal Navarro, who repeatedly uses the young commander and his soldiers as violent instruments of his unique form of border justice. Ultimately, when Navarro bushwhacks Taylor and Jenkins during the Second Punitive Expedition into Mexico, the Lieutenant is forced to make an agonizing choice between duty and friendship. Populated with dynamic characters drawn from the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Boquillas Crossing weaves a lively tale of adventure, deception, and love as it celebrates monumental historical events and the natural beauty of the Big Bend region of far west Texas.
Book Synopsis Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas by : Robert Giertz Yates
Download or read book Geology and Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District, Texas written by Robert Giertz Yates and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Big Bend Country by : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Download or read book Big Bend Country written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale?s stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country.? ?Dallas Morning News ?If you?ve never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale?s new book will make you want to go there.??Austin American-Statesman.
Download or read book Minerals Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mineral Resources of the United States by :
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1910 by : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Download or read book Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1910 written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Occurrence and Treatment of Mercury Ore at Small Mines by : M. W. Von Bernewitz
Download or read book Occurrence and Treatment of Mercury Ore at Small Mines written by M. W. Von Bernewitz and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tariff Information Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Industrial Readjustments of Certain Mineral Industries Affected by the War by : United States Tariff Commission
Download or read book Industrial Readjustments of Certain Mineral Industries Affected by the War written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
