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"Visitors to Texas and New Mexico have marveled for centuries at the immensity of the Llano Estacado and the surprising contrast as, at the edges of the great mesa, the flat ground gives way suddenly to such spectacular formations as the Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons. In the introduction to Ama...

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Otros Autores: Chaplo, Paul V. (Fotógrafo)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station, Texas : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Plateaus.
Landscape photography.
Aerial photography.
Photographie aerienne > Llano Estacado.
Photographie de paysages > Llano Estacado.
Plateaux (Geographie) > Nouveau-Mexique > Ouvrages illustres.
Plateaux (Geographie) > Texas (Ouest) > Ouvrages illustres.
Aerial photography > Llano Estacado.
Landscape photography > Llano Estacado.
Plateaus > New Mexico > Pictorial works.
Plateaus > Texas, West > Pictorial works.
West Texas.
United States > Llano Estacado.
New Mexico.
Llano Estacado > Ouvrages illustres.
Llano Estacado > Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustres.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
illustrated books.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • The Llano Estacado and Surrounding Lands
  • Foreword
  • Photographer's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Flying behind the Storm: Rain and Teardrops of the Caprock Canyons
  • 1. Flying behind the Storm
  • 2. Clearing over Caprock Canyons
  • 3. Sun Beaming on Eagles Point
  • 4. A Trail from Rails
  • 5. Pronghorn
  • 6. Quitaque Peaks
  • 7. A Scar in the Earth
  • II. Puerto de los Rivajeños: Natural On-Ramp to the Plains
  • 8. Traces of Puerto de los Rivajeños
  • 9. Port of the Plains
  • 10. Gypsum Star
  • 11. Puerto Reverse
  • 12. La Ceja
  • 13. Scalloped Canyon
  • 14. Park Hill Precipice
  • 15. Park Hill Vista
  • 16. Facing the Llano Estacado
  • 17. Garcia Lake
  • 18. The Scrapings, Tierra Blanca Creek
  • 19. Cattle Feed Lot
  • 20. Golden Hour over the Llano Estacado
  • III. Water, Wine, and Ransom: Following Yellow House Draw
  • 21. Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
  • 22. The Plague in Paradise
  • 23. Approach to Casas Amarillas
  • 24. Casas Amarillas Overview
  • 25. Yellow House Ranch
  • 26. The Devil's Inkwell
  • 27. Fields of Double Gold
  • 28. Pastores' Wall
  • 29. Wine and Ransom
  • 30. Ransom Canyon High
  • 31. Cotton Harvest
  • 32. Fields of White
  • 33. No, It's Not Snow
  • 34. Ranger Camp
  • 35. Blanco Canyon Edge
  • 36. Bassanca
  • 37. Golden Playas
  • 38. Downburst Thunderstorm
  • 39. Gail Mountain
  • 40. Mushaway Peak
  • IV. Trailing the Comanches and Goodnight: Passage through Horsehead Crossing
  • 41. Signal Peak and Moss Creek
  • 42. The Big Spring
  • 43. Permian Oil Wells
  • 44. Castle Gap toward Horsehead Crossing
  • 45. Across Castle Gap
  • 46. Looking toward King Mountain
  • 47. The Graveyard of Settlers' Dreams
  • 48. Horsehead Revisited
  • 49. The Smell of Water
  • 50. Bosque Redondo
  • 51. Flag over Fort Sumner Site
  • 52. Acequia Madre
  • V. Swinging Low into Palo Duro and Tule Canyons: Flying Southwest from Amarillo
  • 53. Capitol Peak, Palo Duro Canyon State Park
  • 54. Hoodoo Magic
  • 55. Spanish Skirts
  • 56. The Razor's Edge
  • 57. Lighthouse Peak
  • 58. Canyon Jewel
  • 59. Valley of Light
  • 60. North Cita Canyon
  • 61. Red River War Battlefield
  • 62. High over the Tule Canyon Narrows
  • 63. Ross Canyon
  • 64. Into the Narrows
  • 65. Electric Transmission Towers
  • 66. Upper Tule Double Rainbow
  • 67. Overview, Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River
  • 68. JA Ranch HQ "Big House"
  • 69. JA Ranch Grassland
  • 70. Goodnight House with Bison Herd
  • VI. Roadside Wonders: Surprises beyond the Guardrail
  • 71. Cadillac Crop
  • 72. POW Camp
  • 73. POW Chapel
  • 74. First In, Last In
  • 75. Timber Bridge, Route 66
  • 76. Modern Restrooms, Route 66
  • 77. Monahans Sandhills
  • 78. Mystery in the Sands
  • 79. Pump Jacks at the Beach
  • 80. Giant Cross
  • 81. The Bomb Train
  • 82. Forgotten Airfield
  • VII. Mescalero Escarpment: Flying from Clovis, New Mexico
  • 83. The Blackwater Draw
  • 84. Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark

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