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Libros de Terlingua
Books to Enhance Your Experience of Life in Old Terlingua |
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Elizabeth Baeza Márquez brings to us this book written by a friend of hers, Alfredo Terrazas. A False Lie tells the story (based on real events) of Santos' love and Dolores' lies. In the process of telling the story it reveals what life was like for the people living in the area of Big Bend, Texas in the early 20th century when only a river divides two countries as people, religion, beliefs, and cultures blend across the landscape. Santos' love for Dolores is so great that it forces him to live in misery. What is to become of their destinies?
Alfredo Terrazas was born in Marathon, Texas. He moved to Monahans, TX in 1967 to finish high school and returned to Marathon to work for Gage Holland. In December 1968, Alfredo worked in Big Bend, Texas. He enlisted as a Marine shortly after high school and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from the war, Alfredo graduated from Sul Ross University and became a high school teacher in Taylor, Texas until retirement in 2008. He is a proud husband and father of two daughters. Alfredo Terrazas alfredoterrazas@yahoo.com Taylor, TX
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Louisa Franco Madrid recommends these two books. She just finished reading them. Louisa tells us that "Tales of the Big Bend" gives sources for some of the the tales that include Carolina P. Molinar and Petra Valenzuela. Around 1951 when Petra Valenzuela (now Petra V Gonzales) was a student at Sul Ross College she, Kate Davis, and Ester Gonzales told the author some of the stories found in the book.
But Louisa finds "More Tales of Big Bend" even more interesting because "it has the corridos of the Big Bend and one is the one where Leonardo Pando and Secundino Franco are mentioned. El corrido del Rancho Jandred-huan on pages 58 through 62." We have included "Stray Tales of the Big Bend" because it is the next in the series of these books. Tell us what you think of the book if you have read it. We have also included "The Way I Heard It" by Walter Fulcher because it tells us the folklore of how things were named in the Big Bend area. Mr Fulcher was a respected resident of the area with deep roots in the Terlingua area. Some Familias de Terlingua readers have recommended this book. |
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Wings over the Mexican Border: Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend (Paperback) by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Recommended by Bob Wirt: "This is a fascinating account of U.S. Army Air Corps operations in the 1930's at Johnson's Ranch, along the Rio Grande River in what is now Big Bend National Park. It also has some insights into what it was like to operate a trading post in such an isolated area." |
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Chronicles of the Big Bend: A Photographic Memoir of Life on the Border by Austin Smithers with a forward by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Recommended by Bob Wirt: "a famous photographer, worked for the U.S. Army as a packer for mules and wagons supplying Army outposts in the lower Big Bend, so about half of the book is dedicated to those activities. But later he spent a lot of time in the area just taking photos of ordinary people and things. He also has chapters on the curanderos and the avisadores and their secret signaling system." |
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Federico Villalba's Texas
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Books About Teachers in Terlingua
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Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale has two books of interest here
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Drug Lord by Terrence E. Poppa
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