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A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia

By: Jerry D. Thompson

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A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia

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Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen in this comprehensive work.

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A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia

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Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen in this comprehensive work.

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Seeds

Ecology, Biogeography, And, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination

By: Carol C. Baskin,Jerry M. Baskin

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Ecology, Biogeography, And, Evolution of Dormancy and Germination

By: Carol C. Baskin,Jerry M. Baskin

Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination provides a working hypothesis of the ecological and environmental conditions under which carious kinds of seed dormancy have developed. It also presents the seed germination of morethan 3500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous species.

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Elsevier

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0120802635

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Under the Piñon Tree

Finding a Place in Pie Town

By: Jerry D. Thompson

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Under the Piñon Tree

Finding a Place in Pie Town

By: Jerry D. Thompson

Raised in Catron County around Pie Town, Jerry D. Thompson is a well-known Southwestern and Civil War historian. Part regional history, part family history, and part childhood memories, Under the Piñon Tree traces the lives of Catron County residents and explores how the area has grown and changed since the Depression and World War II, when Thompson’s family first homesteaded the area. Those interested in storytelling and history will enjoy this richly detailed account. Under the Piñon Tree is a must-read for anyone interested in New Mexico and the Southwest.

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0826364608

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9780826364609

Mexican Texans in the Union Army

By: Jerry D. Thompson

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Mexican Texans in the Union Army

By: Jerry D. Thompson

As early as April 1861, armed Mexican Texans (Tejanos as they were called) revolted against Confederate authorities in Zapata County, Texas. With the arrival of the Union Army in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in November 1863, almost a thousand Tejanos were recruited and came to comprise the Second Texas Cavalry. Most who served in the Federal blue came from small towns and villages along the Rio Grande; a good many were illiterate peones and some were called pelados--a derogatory term for the truly "down and out." Jerry Thompson's expertly written and exhaustively researched study, the first complete account of this obscure but important chapter in Civil War Texas history, tells of the organization of the Second Texas, its colorful and controversial officers, its attack on Laredo in March 1864, its guerilla warfare in the Nueces Strip, the desertion of one-third of its troopers into Mexico, and its activities down to its mustering out in September 1865. Mexican Texans in the Union Army contains photographs, maps and a complete roster of the men who served in the Second Texas Cavalry.

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0874041554

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9780874041552

Under the Piñon Tree

Coming of Age in Pie Town

By: Jerry D. Thompson

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Coming of Age in Pie Town

By: Jerry D. Thompson

Raised in Catron County around Pie Town, Jerry D. Thompson is a well-known Southwestern and Civil War historian. Part regional history, part family history, and part childhood memories, Under the Piñon Tree traces the lives of Catron County residents and explores how the area has grown and changed since the Depression and World War II, when Thompson's family first homesteaded the area. Those interested in storytelling and history will enjoy this richly detailed account. Under the Piñon Tree is a must-read for anyone interested in New Mexico and the Southwest.

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0826364594

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9780826364593

Civil War to the Bloody End

The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman

By: Jerry D. Thompson

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Civil War to the Bloody End

The Life and Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman

By: Jerry D. Thompson

If President Lincoln could have unmade a general, perhaps he would have started with Samuel Peter "Sourdough" Heintzelman, whose early military successes were overshadowed by a prickly disposition and repeated Union defeats during the Civil War." "By the time his friend Robert E. Lee left Arlington to lead a Rebel army against the bluecoats, Heintzelman had already seen duty in Mexico, established Fort Yuma in California in 1850, mined for silver in Arizona, and ably led U.S. forces on the Texas-Mexico border during the 1859-60 Cortina War. During the Civil War, he was in the forefront of the fighting at First Bull Run and the disastrous 1862 Peninsula Campaign. He commanded the III Corps of the Army of the Potomac at the siege of Yorktown and in the ferocious fighting at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Oak Grove, Savage's Station, Glendale, and Malvern Hill. Although he aspired to succeed Gen. George B. McClellan, he was relieved of his command after his troops were badly mauled at Second Bull Run. After demonstrating his inability to guard the southern approaches to Washington, D.C., from Virginia guerillas, he spent the latter part of the war administering prison camps in the Midwest, keeping a watchful eye on Copperhead subversives, and quarreling with more than one disgruntled governor. In early Reconstruction Texas, Heintzelman struggled with the conflict between former Secessionists and Radical Republicans."--BOOK JACKET.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585445355

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Tejano Tiger

Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891

By: Jerry Thompson

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Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891

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Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of Webb County. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Basilio was one of only two Tejanos in the state legislature. During Santos’s lifetime, five flags flew over the small community he called home—that of the Republic of Mexico, the ill-fated Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Texas, an expansionist United States, and in March 1861, the rebellious Confederate States of America. It was under the Confederacy in the disputed Texas-Mexico borderlands that Santos Benavides reached the pinnacle of his military career as the highest-ranking Tejano in the entire Confederate army. In the decades that followed the Civil War, he became an esteemed political leader, highly respected on both sides of the border. This is the first scholarly study of this important historical figure. At the pinnacle of his political career in 1879, Benavides held the distinction of being the only Tejano in the Texas legislature. Through strife, sweat, blood, and heroism in defense of the border, Benavides rose to economic and political heights few could dream of. As a friend and confidant of two Mexican presidents, he was one of the single most influential individuals in the nineteenth-century history of the border. His life was one of enduring perseverance as well as binational leadership and skilled diplomacy. He was without doubt the single most important individual in the long and often violent history of Laredo. The niche he carved in the tumultuous transnational history of the Texas-Mexico borderlands seems secure.

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087565665X

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9780875656656

Fronteras

Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name In Texas

By: Jerry D. Thompson

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Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name In Texas

By: Jerry D. Thompson

Did this border caudillo fight to defend the rights, honor, and legal claims of the Mexicans of South Texas, as he claimed? Or was his a quest for personal vengeance against the newcomers who had married into his family, threatened his mother's land holdings, and insulted his honor?

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1603444513

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Cherokee by Blood

Volume 5, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U. S. Court of Claims 1906-1910, Applications 10171-13260

By: Jerry Wright Jordan

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Cherokee by Blood

Volume 5, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U. S. Court of Claims 1906-1910, Applications 10171-13260

By: Jerry Wright Jordan

In 1904 the Eastern Cherokees won large cash settlements from the United States because of violations of the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845. Over a million dollars was appropriated by Congress to settle the claims. The payments were to go to all living pers

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1556132948

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Tejano Tiger

Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891

By: Jerry Thompson

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Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891

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