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The Nueces River
Author | : Margie Crisp |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781623495152 |
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First appearing on early Spanish maps as the Río Escondido, or hidden river, and later named Río de las Nueces after the abundant pecan trees along its banks, the Nueces today is a stream of seeming contradictions: a river that runs above and below ground; a geographic reminder of a history both noble and egregious; and a spring-fed stream transformed into a salty, steep-sided channel. From its fresh, clear headwaters on the Edwards Plateau, Margie Crisp and William B. Montgomery follow the river through the mesquite and prickly pear of the South Texas Plains, to the river’s end in Nueces and Corpus Christi Bays on the Gulf of Mexico. With vivid prose and paintings, they record their travels as they explore the length of the river on foot, kayak, and fishing boat, ultimately weaving a vivid portrait of today’s Nueces. Capturing the river’s subtle beauty, abundant wildlife, diverse culture, and unique history of exploration, conflict, and settlement, they reveal the untold story of this enigmatic river with passion, humor, and reverence. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Nueces River Project Texas
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119495609 |
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Nueces River Project Texas
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Water resources development |
ISBN | : UOM:39015081208517 |
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Nueces River Project
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556031249402 |
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Streamflow Losses Along the Balcones Fault Zone Nueces River Basin Texas
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Nueces River Watershed (Tex.) |
ISBN | : UCR:31210018640522 |
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Edwards Underground Reservoir Guadalupe San Antonio and Nueces River and Tributaries Texas
Author | : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Edwards Aquifer (Tex.). |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D03545635C |
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Plan of Development for Lower Nueces River Project
Author | : United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Region 5 |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Nueces River Watershed (Tex.) |
ISBN | : HARVARD:LI3U9R |
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Taming the Nueces Strip
Author | : George Durham,Clyde Wantland |
Publsiher | : Univ of TX + ORM |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292747852 |
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“Durham’s account is modest and straightforward . . . has many lessons for anyone interested in the history of the Old West, leadership or law enforcement.” —American West Review Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and rape. Their main objective? To steal cattle, which they herded back across the Rio Grande to sell. Honest citizens found it almost impossible to live in the Nueces Strip. In desperation, the governor of Texas called on an extraordinary man, Captain Leander M. McNelly, to take command of a Ranger company and stop these border bandits. One of McNelly’s recruits for this task was George Durham, a Georgia farm boy in his teens when he joined the “Little McNellys,” as the Captain’s band called themselves. More than half a century later, it was George Durham, the last surviving “McNelly Ranger,” who recounted the exciting tale of taming the Nueces Strip to San Antonio writer Clyde Wantland. In Durham’s account, those long-ago days are brought vividly back to life. Once again the daring McNelly leads his courageous band across Southwest Texas to victories against incredible odds. With a boldness that overcame their dismayingly small number, the McNellys succeeded in bringing law and order to the untamed Nueces Strip—succeeded so well that they antagonized certain “upright” citizens who had been pocketing surreptitious dollars from the bandits’ operations. “The reader seems to smell the acrid gunsmoke and to hear the creak of saddle leather.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly