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Haunted In Desolation: The Murder Of Captain John Gunnison, Reconsidered, Todd Shallat
Haunted In Desolation: The Murder Of Captain John Gunnison, Reconsidered, Todd Shallat
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
Deserts confuse, fogging memory and electrifying the imagination. In 1853, on Utah’s Sevier River, a ritualized killing spawned a folklore of deserts that lives on to this day. Captain John W. Gunnison, an engineer, had detoured into an ambush. Dismembered, decapitated, his heart torn from his chest, he had died, it was said, by order of the Mormon prophet and Utah’s Latter-day Saints. Fabulized over the decades, the tale was contorted with an evil king in a desert kingdom, with ghoulish assassins and restless corpses undead. Folklore saw what historians have been slow to perceive about hauntings in desolation. Memories …
Afro-Mexican Spaces And Legacies On The Lower Rio Grande, Jamie Starling
Afro-Mexican Spaces And Legacies On The Lower Rio Grande, Jamie Starling
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article focuses on the colonial history and post-colonial legacy of African-descended people in Starr and Zapata counties along the lower Rio Grande in Southern Texas. Topics discussed include encounters in later race relations in South Texas' borderlands; complex milieu for peoples of African origin along the lower Rio Grande; and encounters between African Americans, Anglos and Mexicans that took place during the 1840s and 1850s.
Hernan Cortes: Conquistador And Colonizer, Hubert J. Miller
Hernan Cortes: Conquistador And Colonizer, Hubert J. Miller
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The conquest and colonization of Mexico initiated by Hernan Cortes resulted in the fusion of the Indian and Hispanic cultures. This fusion led to the "mestizo" culture. Cortes was the bearer of the Hispanic heritage just as the Aztecs and other Indians in Mexico and the Southwest were the carriers of the Indian heritage. In studying the life of Cortes, he is seen not only as a military conqueror but also as a colonizer in which role he left a more lasting legacy than he did as the victor over the Aztec Empire. This booklet focuses on Cortes' colonizing efforts. …