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Mind the gap: ghosts, trees, and Goodbye to a River
There’s a 5,000-pound ghost hovering over Austin’s Lady Bird Lake, the remains of a 35-foot cedar elm painted white and hoisted onto a shaft sunk into the water. Entitled Thirst, this collaborative project memorializes the estimated 301 million trees in … Continue reading
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Tagged bison, Charles Goodnight, Comanches, drought, ghosts, John Graves, Point Reyes National Seashore, San Antonio
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A holy fool in “the land of the Philistines”
Greeks and Trojans, Christians and Muslims, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, Tutsis and Hutus—the collision of cultures is rarely, if ever, a pleasant sight. The protracted and bloody war between the Plains Indians, especially the Comanches, and the white … Continue reading
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Tagged Comanches, Jefferson Davis, John R. Baylor, nineteenth century, Robert S. Neighbors, Texas Rangers, violence
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