Learning Las Vegas: Portrait of a Northern New Mexican Place - Rilegato

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow

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ISBN 10: 0890135789 ISBN 13: 9780890135785

Casa editrice: Museum of New Mexico Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of place, exploring its history and geography, nature and character through explorations of town and landscape and encounters with Las Vegans.

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Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the subject and muse of this provocative case study of "place", exploring the history and geography but most centrally walking the town and landscape and meeting the people whose lives tell of the rich complexity of the location. To start with topography, Las Vegas translates as "The Meadows". The name refers to the series of spacious grasslands fanning out from the slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Range where the mountains form the western terminus of the Great Plains. This fine location allowed Las Vegas, situated as it was on the Santa Fe Trail and with the arrival of the railroad, to become New Mexicos handsomest, most prosperous town. Throughout the opulent years from 1821 through the first decades of the twentieth century, merchants and businessmen amassed considerable wealth in grain and lumber from Mora and San Miguel counties, along with wool, hides, and metals from the Pecos and Mesilla valleys. The regions decline was spelled out by the rerouting of the railway along with changes in manufacturing. Todays Las Vegas is a proud but fading shadow of its former self, captured in human terms, in families and memories, and still in the dreams of its people. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, an accomplished cultural historian and photographer, includes portraits of some sixty residents interviewed extensively for the project and dozens of photographs detailing the towns architecture, public spaces, and natural features. To comprehend the layout of Las Vegas and study its architecture, Rogers walked its streets, exploring the outlying villages and ranches with traces of the Santa Fe Trail at Fort Union and elsewhere. To visualize its past, she delved deeply in archives and histories. To feel the pulse of the present, Rogers interviewed Las Vegans representing different cultural backgrounds, ages, and walks of life and immersed herself in local events and social gatherings. The result is an authentic portrait of a unique cultural place.

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• Editore: Museum of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0890135789
• ISBN 13: 9780890135785
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 284