Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley
Discover the darker side of Texas history in this collection of chilling local lore-includes photos! Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes of the Rio Grande Valley wait sinister secrets, unnerving vestiges of the past, and wraiths of those claimed by the winding river. The spirit of a murdered student in Brownsville paces the locker room where she met her end. Tortured souls of patients lost in the Harlingen Insane Asylum refuse to be forgotten. Guests at the LaBorde Hotel in Rio Grande City report visions of the Red Lady, who was spurned by the soldier she loved and driven to suicide. In this book, David Bowles explores these a…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Meléndez, José (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62585-778-1
- EAN: 9781625857781
- Produktnummer: 31909820
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 163 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'154 KB
Über den Autor
South Texas native David Bowles is an award-winning author and professor at the University of Texas. Bowles is the author of several other titles, including the Pura Belpré Honor award-winning book The Smoking Mirror, and Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas. His writing has appeared in Translation Review, Metamorphoses, Asymptote, Rattle, Axolotl, Huizache, Concho River Review, Border Senses, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and more.
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