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First published in 1980 as part of Harper & Row's Regions of America series, this lively account is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. Focusing on New Mexico and Arizona, it also touches on neighboring states Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California, as well as northern Mexico. Lavender writes of the Southwest from the time of the earliest Indian inhabitants to the eras of the Spanish conquerors, the French fur trappers,...
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"Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the American Southwest" is the first book-length, fully documented study since Dorothy Woodward's 1935 Yale University dissertation. Using newly available sources and contemporary materials from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Marta Weigle shows the Brotherhood's substantial contributions--through acts of charity, supervision of wakes and funerals, and religious observances--to community survival...
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society volume no. IX
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society volume no. 9
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society volume no. 9
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