[PDF] Dona Tules eBook

Author : Mary J. Straw Cook
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826343155

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Gertrudis Barceló was born at the turn of the nineteenth century in the Bavispe valley of east central Sonora, Mexico. Young Gertrudis, who would later achieve fame under the name “Tules,” discovered how to manipulate men, reading their body language and analyzing their gambling habits. This power, coupled with a strong-willed and enterprising nature, led Doña Tules to her legendary role as a shrewd and notorious gambling queen and astute businesswoman. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, her monte dealings and entertainment houses became legendary throughout the southern Rocky Mountain region. Doña Tules’s daring behavior attracted the condemnation of many puritanical Anglo travelers along the Santa Fe Trail. Demonized by later historians, Doña Tules has predominately been portrayed as little more than a caricature of an Old West madam and cardsharp, eluding serious historical study until now. Mary J. Straw Cook sifts through the notoriety to illustrate the significant role Doña Tules played in New Mexico history as the American era was about to begin.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826340337

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This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast and includes experiences and contributions of American Indians, Hispanics, and African Americans.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826334725

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The life stories of many individuals are woven together to tell the history of the American West from the earliest days of westward expansion to the twentieth century.

Author : Adela de la Torre
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1993-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520070905

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This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas' lives over the last three centuries. Focusing on how women have grappled with political subordination and sexual exploitation, the contributors confront the complex intersection of class, race, ethnicity, and gender that defines the Chicana experience in America. The book analyzes the ways that oppressive power relations and resistance to domination have shaped Chicana history, exploring subjects as diverse as sexual violence against Amerindian women during the Spanish conquest of California to contemporary Chicanas' efforts to construct feminist cultural discourses. The volume ends with a provocative dialogue among the contributors about the challenges, frustrations, and obstacles that face Chicana scholars, and the voices heard here testify to the vibrant state of Chicano scholarship. Trenchant and wide-ranging, this collection is essential reading for understanding the dynamics of feminism and multiculturalism.

Author : Blanche Chloe Grant
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0865346046

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"Doa Lona" is a story based on actual history and the life of the famous gambling queen, Mara Gertrudis Barcel, better known as Doa Tules. The characters are all part of the real-life drama of the settling of the American Southwest in the 1820s.

Author : Calvin A. Roberts
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826335074

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A textbook tracing the history of New Mexico's land and people from the Ice Age to the present.

Author : John M. Belohlavek
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813939917

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In Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies, John M. Belohlavek tells the story of women on both sides of the Mexican-American War (1846-48) as they were propelled by the bloody conflict to adopt new roles and expand traditional ones. American women "back home" functioned as anti-war activists, pro-war supporters, and pioneering female journalists. Others moved west and established their own reputations for courage and determination in dusty border towns or bordellos. Women formed a critical component of the popular culture of the period, as trendy theatrical and musical performances drew audiences eager to witness tales of derring-do, while contemporary novels, in tales resplendent with heroism and the promise of love fulfilled, painted a romanticized picture of encounters between Yankee soldiers and fair Mexican senoritas. Belohlavek juxtaposes these romantic dreams with the reality in Mexico, which included sexual assault, women soldaderas marching with men to provide critical supportive services, and the challenges and courage of working women off the battlefield. In all, Belohlavek shows the critical roles played by women, real and imagined, on both sides of this controversial war of American imperial expansion.

Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0786458097

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This is a survey of the major historic trails of New Mexico and other parts of the American Southwest. These trails were used by Indians, prospectors, soldiers, buffalo hunters, immigrants, and cattle and sheep drovers, and, unlike other, more famous Western trails, were used as a network of two-way trade routes instead of one-way avenues for westward migration. Introductory chapters highlight prehistoric Indian trails, Spanish exploration, and Pecos as a microcosm of the old Southwest. Each subsequent chapter covers an individual trail, describing its history and some of the people who used it. A chronology of New Mexico's history and trail system is included, as are maps of the most important trails.

Author : Elizabeth West
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Santa Fe (N.M.)
ISBN : 0865348766

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This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.

Author : Manuel Payno
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1587368226

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An epic of Mexican life in the early 19th century follows Juan Robre, an illegitimate child of nobility, as he searches for the truth of his birth, and becomes associated with a notorious bandit.