From review - "This is a classic work of Texas fiction that is memorable for the storm of controversy it caused when it was published anonymously in 1925. Set in the 1880s, it tells the story of a fragile 18-year-old girl from Virginia, suddenly orphaned and left penniless, who goes to live with her cousin, a rancher somewhere west of Sweetwater, in West Texas."

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SCARBOROUGH, DOROTHY

Grider, Sylvia Ann

Literature & Fiction

University of Texas Press

The Wendish Texans (Texians and the Texans)

History

Americas

University of Texas, Institute of Texan Cultures

The Wendish Texans (The Texians and the Texans)

University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures--San Antonio

Santa Fe photographer Joan Alessi provides a polychromatic exposition of New Mexico's traditional roadside memorials, descansos, as an art form. Her stunning photography captures the artistic attributes of these decorative crosses while preserving their religious and cultural integrity.
Sylvia Grider's accompanying essay explains the origin and folkloric tradition of roadside memorials. These religious markers are not in themselves unique to the southwestern United States. Rather, they are a universal phenomenon with a long and curious history. The term descanso (literally translated as "resting place"), however, may have indeed originated among the Spanish-speaking vecinos of New Mexico.
 "The descansos contained in this book are a reflection of both the emotion and dedication of the devotees as they mourn the passing and celebrate the life of the beloved."--Art Gómez, National Park Service, supervisory historian; (coauthor) New Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People (UNM Press)

Joan E. Alessi: Descansos, The Sacred Landscape of New Mexico (English and Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Fresco Fine Art Publications, LLC

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