Founding of the City of Laredo
Author | : Laredo Chamber of Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1970* |
Genre | : Laredo (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Laredo Chamber of Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1970* |
Genre | : Laredo (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen Da Camara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Laredo (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maria Eugenia Guerra |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1893619168 |
An illustrated history of Loredo, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author | : Stanley C. Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Laredo (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elaine A. Peña |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1477321446 |
Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
Author | : Laredo Immigration and Improvement Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Laredo (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen Da Camara |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1473381789 |
Laredo, Texas has a rich and fascinating history being on the border with America's neighbor to the south Mexico. This is a window into everyday life of the city, a must read for any keen amateur historian.
Author | : Larry McMurtry |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439126372 |
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena—once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild streches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.
Author | : Laredo Chamber of Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Laredo (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Celia Stahr |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250113393 |
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today "[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's Weekly Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.