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Author:

Thompson, Jerry D.

Title:

A wild and vivid land : an illustrated history of the south Texas border / Jerry Thompson.

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Texas State Historical Association,

Copyright Date:

2012, c1997

Description:

206 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Texas, South--Pictorial works.--Pictorial works.
Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works.--Pictorial works.
Rio Grande Region (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--Pictorial works.--Pictorial works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-196) and index.

Summary:

With more than 160 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells stories from the Coahuiltecan Indians and Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the cattlemen and wildcatters who conquered the brush country. Six centuries of exciting and entertaining history thoroughly reasearched.

ISBN:

9780876112564
0876112564

OCLC:

(OCoLC)795009514

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)