audiobook Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South by Victoria Byerly in History

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This story of the legendary Llano Estacado from 1536 to 1860 informs our understanding of discovery and geography in the Southwest. El Llano Estacado is more than a good read: it is also a native son's meditation on the role of the imagination and myth in how we perceive this unique environment. From the dawn of historic contact with the Southern High Plains; a remarkable series of Spanish; French; Mexican; and Anglo-American explorers and adventurers attempted to make sense of its curious environment. "Lo Llano; " the first part of this saga; is a detective story on the Lost Coronado Trail. The key to this ancient Southwestern mystery - where did the Spanish go in 1541? - is understanding what they saw and how they remembered it in their writings. Part Two; "The Llano Frontier; " studies the three centuries of Spanish exploration and imagination following Coronado. "The Illimitable Prairie; " part three of the study; analyzes the romantic discovery of the Llano in the Anglo imagination. In the final part; "T Great Zahara; " the author rides the trail of the classic Anglo explorers of the Llano: James W. Abert; Randolph Marcy; John Pope; and others. The visual representations of the Llano are also revealed through numerous illustrations of rare maps and lithographs.