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>Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest!
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>Wednesday January 10, 2001
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/articles/A34666-2001Jan8.html As
>landmarks go, the brick jailhouse is not easy to appreciate. But then a
>small group of preservationists dredged up the jail's link to one of the
>most violent and important epochs in American labor history, the largely
>forgotten West Virginia mine wars of the last century's second and third
>decades.
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>TEXAS
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>http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/storypage.cfm?xla=s
>aen&xlb=1130&xlc=81866&xld=120 On Dec. 21, 1835, Neill was ordered by
>Houston to take charge of Bexar. On Jan. 17, 1836, Houston sent Bowie with
>orders for Neill to blow up Bexar and retreat to Gonzales. As Neill had no
>teams (of mules) to remove the artillery, the order was not obeyed. So, for
>lack of mules, some historians might claim, there was the famous Battle of
>the Alamo where some 1,600 human beings died. Postscript: In a few academic
>circles there is an emerging prediction that within 100 years, Hispanics,
>Indians and other minorities - reaching from Texas to California - will
>seek to create El Republico del Norte, which will be neither the United
>States nor Mexico.
>
>http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/storypage.cfm?xla=s
>aen&xlb=180&xlc=162316&xld=180 Whether Bowie at the Alamo used any of the
>knives named after him is not known. The public's embrace of the knives was
>such that soldiers on both sides during the Civil War used them.
>
>http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010103/424314.html
>The long-sought fort of La Salle on the Gulf of Mexico has been found. New
>France's attempt to procure a warm-water port for the fur trade is now
>coming into focus. La Salle, a crusty former Jesuit, was nobody's
>favourite. Prone to manic depression, he fought bitterly with his crews,
>and forced male stewards to sleep with him. A cadre of his men assassinated
>him in Texas, three years into an attempt to colonize Spanish territory,
>beginning in 1685. Archeologists are now telling the story of his miserable
>colony on a corner of a ranch near Victoria, Texas, and 15 miles south, in
>Matagorda Bay on the Gulf Coast.
>
>http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/neighborhoods/lowervalley/20010109-754
>90.shtml A re-enactment is being planned in San Elizario as part of a
>citywide celebration of the first Thanksgiving in El Paso. On April 30,
>1598, Don Juan de Oņate arrived on the banks of the Rio Grande. One of the
>events to be commemorated will be the crossing of the Oņate expedition May
>4, 1598, at the site of the present La Hacienda Restaurant. The week will
>end with a celebration May 5 of the Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo. What:
>Heritage Tourism Week. When: April 28-May 5, featuring all aspects of El
>Paso's history from pre-colonial times to the present. Information 534.0630
>
>http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/010801/opi_horsley.shtml A reason
>brick-lovers want to keep the bricks has to do with history. Some think
>anything old beats anything new, and we ought to keep brick streets because
>they're links to our past. Actively or passively, each community decides
>how much history to preserve or destroy. The decision on brick streets
>should come after a dialogue between all parties allows community values to
>emerge.
>
>http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/257183_museum_09met.A.html Ms. Bonner, an
>Austin marketing consultant and Dallas native, had the vision and
>fund-raising ability to bring the first national women's history museum
>into existence in four years. The museum seems to have found unqualified
>acceptance.
>
>http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/indexpage.cfm?xlb=1130 The
>Texas State Historical Association has published the 'Portable Handbook of
>Texas' (cost $60), a single volume condensation of the essential
>information contained in the award winning six volume 'New Handbook of
>Texas,' published in 1996. (Costs $395). Order it by calling 800.687.8132
>ARIZONA
>
>http://www.azcentral.com/travel/destinations/arizona/golden/histdowntown.sht
>ml Downtown Phoenix kept its 1920s identity into the late 1960s, when the
>face of the city changed with the construction of office towers in the
>central core. Fortunately, key commercial and civic buildings from the
>1920s remain.
>
>NEW EMPLOYNENT OPPORTUNITIES (AZ)
>
>http://www.pr.state.az.us/employment/hrother_vacancies.html#anchor948022
>http://www.pr.state.az.us/employment/hrother_vacancies.html#anchor947485
>SWA Employment Opportunities <http://www.swanet.org/obs.html>
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>UTAH
>
>http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,245012782,00.html? Thanks to a
>$25,000 grant from the Eccles Foundation of Salt Lake City and matching
>gifts from private donors, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is
>offering small planning grants to preservation projects and initiatives
>throughout Utah. For information, contact John Mitterholzer at 303.623.1504
>
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