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3) The Pearl
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English
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence."--Pub.desc.
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English
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Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
Author
Series
Yale Western Americana paperbound volume YW-3
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1982] c1962
Language
English
Description
Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and she wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of the places she went. She gave birth to her first child during the journey.
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Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002, 2000
Language
English
Description
From 1610, when the Spanish founded the city of Santa Fe, to the 1860s, when the railroad brought unprecedented changes: here is the full, fascinating story of the great Santa Fe Trail which ran between Missouri and Kansas and New Mexico--a lifeline to and from the Southwest for more than two centuries. Drawing from letters, journals, expedition reports, business records, and newspaper stories, David Dary--one of our foremost historians of the Old...
7) The captive
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
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Series
Bulletin volume 503A
Publisher
Cooperative Extension Service, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
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13) Archaeological excavations in the northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico
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Series
Publisher
University of Colorado Press
Pub. Date
1958.
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English
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
"My overriding concern in this book has been, not to write a historical account of the theories and methods current at various times, and used by different researchers, but to pass in review the sequence of accretions to the store of knowledge, while at the same time giving some attention to those errors which often delay this process."--From the introduction.
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Contribution of the Larval Fish Laboratory Colorado State University volume 139
Contribution ... of the Larval Fish Laboratory Colorado State University volume 139
Technical publication volume 42
Technical publication volume no. 42
Contribution ... of the Larval Fish Laboratory Colorado State University volume 139
Technical publication volume 42
Technical publication volume no. 42
Publisher
Colorado Division of Wildlife
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 3
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Series
Quick response research report volume 9
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Completion report volume no. 110
Publisher
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English