Great River : The Rio Grande in North American History - Volume One and Volume Two

Horgan, Paul

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1954

About this Item

1020 pages. Detailed 35 page Index. Book and dust jacket have moisture damage that does not seep into book. Dust jacket has extensive wear that includes creases, tears and small chunks missing. Price is not clipped This thick book includes both Volume One and Volume Two in One Edition. There is a six page letter of dedication to serve as a preface to Charles Arthur Henderson dated Roswell, New Mexico 16 March 1954. Separate Source Sections for each of the two volumes. Covers Indians and Spain in Volume One and Mexico and the United States in Volume Two. General Bibliography, and a list of The Names of the Rio Grande. Includes maps of Texas and Mexico and New Mexico. A comprehensive history of the Southwest. This is the most thorough and most civilized account of the vast region draining into the river that forms 900 miles of Texas border. The author received the Pulitzer Prize, the Collins Award, and the coveted Bancroft Prize for this book. It has been described as one of the best pieces of regional history written on the United States, discussing the Indian, Spanish, Mexican and Anglo civilizations of the area. Yet it is more than a regional history. It deals with four civilizations: Aboriginal Indian, the Spanish, the Mexican and the Anglo-American. A narrative sweep that carries the reader down the centuries presenting the clash, the mutual attraction and replusion, the final merger of the four peoples and their varied cultures. Even today the area drained by the Rio Grande contains an incomparable varied, strange and rich historico-literary materal. Horgan devoted fourteen years to the preparation of these two volumes, and anyone who reads them will forever view the Rio Grande region with enhanced vision. He succeeds in penetrating as did no one before him into the substance of the various cultures that ruled or contended to rule, the Rio Grande Valley. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock. Please be aware that if you request any shipping service other than Media Mail Standard Shipping, we may have to ask for more than quoted to ship this large heavy item.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Great River : The Rio Grande in North American History - Volume One and Volume Two
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
• Publication Date: 1954
• Language: English
• Binding: Hard Back
• Illustrator: Horgan, Paul - Dust Jacket Painting
• Edition: Edition Not Stated
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair