Journal of the Southwest articles from September 2002

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 2002

The last private international bridge in Texas or how Mr. Dupey met his demise on the streets of presidio.(traveler's narrative)
September 22, 2002... MARY DEL VILLAR PORTER EDITED BY SUSAN HARDY AIKEN The late Mary del Villar Porter is best known as the author of one of the minor classics of Southwestern travel literature, Where the Strange Roads Go Down, an account of the 750-mile trek...

Recalling the changing women: returning identity to Chiricahua Apache women and children.
September 22, 2002... The captive wives and children of the Apache leaders and warriors Chihuahua, Geronimo, Perico, Bische, and Mangus were photographed at Fort Bowie, Arizona Territory, in the first days of April 1886 (see figure 1). Posed at the base of Sentinel...

The domesticated gold rush in William Manly's Death Valley in `49.(gold rush narrative)
September 22, 2002... Among the journals and personal memoirs of mid-nineteenth-century overlanders who headed into western American frontiers is a little-known, five hundred-page narrative by William Manly entitled Death Valley in `49. In 1849 Manly heard rumors of...

Washington Matthews and the Hemenway Expedition of 1887-88.(anthropologists)
September 22, 2002... The study of human osteology in the ancient American Southwest essentially began in September of 1887, thanks to the ill health of famous anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition....

Mimetic rituals of child sacrifice in the Hopi Kachina cult.
September 22, 2002... In a previous article in Journal of the Southwest (James 2000), I outlined some aspects of Aztec religion, particularly the Aztec ceremonial cycle for spring planting, which begins with the festival of Tozoztontli in the third month of the...