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“This is a hard country, brush country, mean country, heartbreak country. Ugly in summer, drought-stricken, dusty, glaring, but in winter it is hideous.”

Book:Southwest

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“Now she could smell what the jaguar could smell, odors deeper and richer than anything she had experienced before, layers of smell she could read like Fray Tomás had read the words in her father’s book: the wet decay of leaves, the death fear of a mouse, the poisonous cloy of datura, water and mud and insects, the wind carrying the smell of other animals, the wind itself, and the girl, of course, always the girl with her juicy flesh. The girl smelled incredibly good. Should the jaguar do this? Should Teresa eat herself?”

History Fantasy Young Adult Southwest Jaguars Shape Shifting Sixteenth Century Cabeza De Vaca

Book:Teresa of the New World

Source: Teresa of the New World

“You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these characters are so great.' You put it aside for whatever reason, and you open it up a week later and the characters have turned to cardboard and the book has completely fallen apart," she says. "That's the moment of truth for every writer: Can I go on from here and make this book into something? I think it separates the writers from the nonwriters. And I think it's the reason a lot of people have that unfinished manuscript around the house, that albatross.”

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Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.”

History Western Texas Native Americans Southwest True Stories Parker S Fort

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“One time, a 16-year-old member of Vicente’s group risked his safety trying to save a captive Texas girl, who had been seized by Comanches while taking clothes to wash at a stream near her house.”

History Hispanic New Mexico Tribe Southwest True Stories Comanche

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“A common thread that weaves the stories of all the captives together is race—one racial group attacking another. Many innocent people were simply trying to live their ordinary lives when another group decided it was justifiable to use violence to rob, beat, murder, kidnap, sometimes mutilate, and enslave others and their loved ones.”

War America Race History Racism Southwest Innocents

Book:Captives of the Southwest

Source: Captives of the Southwest

“If we can skillfully create something out of nothing and emotionally touch readers, we have done our JOB as #writers and #authors ~ Jodi Lea Stewart”

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Author:Jodi Lea Stewart

“What we call historical memory is a creature of time and place. Emotional and political needs of the present intersect with past events. For memory, like perception, can never be simply factual. All our memories are reconstructions.”

Memory Historical Memory

Book:Hiroshima in America

Source: Hiroshima in America

“When everything east of Europe was called ‘Russia,’ entire cultures disappeared behind a single word.”

Imperialism Eastern Europe Political Language Historical Memory Colonial Legacy Cultural Erasure Forgotten Cultures Identity And Power Post Soviet History

Book:Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that. Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody?”

History Historical Memory

Book:Space Viking

Source: Space Viking

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