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Chapters: Edwin Sweetland, Clark Shaughnessy, Bernie Bierman, Charles Moir, Billy Kennedy, Todd Bozeman, Perry Clark, Ron Everhart, Dennis Felton, Tom Green, Jeff Reynolds, Benjy Taylor, Dave Dickerson, Jimmy Tillette, Greg Gary, Steve Roccaforte, Roy Danforth. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edwin Regur Sweetland (January 10, 1875 October 21, 1950) was a coach and athletic administrator at several universities. During his coaching career he was head coach of many sports including basketball, track and field and crew, but the majority of for his coaching work was in football. Even with mainly being known for football he was able to leave his mark on several other sports. He was the first paid coach of the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team and the Syracuse University Navy (rowing team). Sweetland attended Union College and was graduate of Cornell in 1899. A gifted athlete, Sweetland was on the varsity football team at Union and Cornell and the varsity rowing team at Cornell. At Cornell he was coached by Hall of Fame coaches Pop Warner in football and Charles E. Courtney in rowing. Edwin Sweetland was born to George Sweetland and Hannah Marsh Sweetland on January 10, 1875 in Dryden, New York. He had several brothers and sisters. One of his brothers was Monroe Marsh Sweetland, who founded Delta Chi fraternity while a law student at Cornell University. Another brother, Dr. George James Sweetland, was captain of the Union College football team in 1895 and later the athletic director and head football coach at University of North Dakota. After attending Union College for one year, Sweetland transferred to Cornell University, where he graduated in 1899 with a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture. At Cornell, he was member of Phi Gamma Delta and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5766592 ... Read more

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A Land So Remote traces the development of religious art in northern New Mexico during a period of over 150 years. This uniquely American art embodies the religious spirit and aspirations of New Mexico's Spanish immigrants, whose enduring faith helped them to cope with the rigors of a harsh and dangerous frontier life. With roots in Spanish baroque style, these pieces played an important role in church, community and family ritual. ... Read more

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A "Feast" for the Scholar and General Public Alike
A LAND SO REMOTE

Prior to the holidays, I received a great gift, a copy of the beautifully produced three-volume study A Land So Remote, authored by Larry Frank and Skip Miller, and published by Marianne and Michael O'Shaughnessy of Red Crane Books, Publishers, Santa Fe.
Creation of a successful publication of this magnitude can only be accomplished by many who work in concert, in this case scholar, editor, publisher and, of course, those who are willing to share their treasures with anyone wishing to turn the pages in this landmark study. Frank and Miller have devoted a large percentage of their lives carefully studying and painstakingly handling objects-some of religious importance, powerful images that were the subject of daily devotion, while other objects that served a useful function in the lives of hundreds of thousands attempting to make their lives easier.To the Hispanic, Native American, and the Anglo, these objects were an integral part of daily life-whether as an expression of their spirituality, their intense religious devotion-- or to enable them to perform certain physical tasks-- cutting wood or baking bread.
The authors, in concert with photographer Michael O'Shaughnessy, have treated each object sympathetically, whether it be a santo or bulto, or packsaddle or carreta wheels, with the same level of care, even reverence.The real joy is in seeing so many diverse objects fashioned out of wood and other materials in significant numbers.How often have we had the opportunity of examining page after page of images beautifully organized and described.The authors, of course, treat us to a display of work by lesser known santeros, as well as the most celebrated, notably José Rafael Aragon.Volume two devotes pages 288 to 377 to some of the most powerful religious images by Aragon and his followers that the reader will ever experience.
Since 1974, I have been a frequent visitor to New Mexico and have written a few books on the Anglo painters.After reading Miller's and Frank's essays, I said to myself, "I wish I had written these words.Both scholars write with conviction and authority.They also write in a style I have labeled "an easy read."They have organized their material so that it makes sense.You understand why the objects were created, who created them and importantly, how they were created.Happily, these objects, some still in the churches in Ranchos de Taos, Chimayo, Taos, and chapels throughout the Southwest, others in museums and private collections, have been "gathered" and presented to the reader and viewer in a beautiful and effective manner (I was tempted to use the phrase elegant but refrained).
All reviews of the publication praise A Land So Remote for its visual appeal, handsome photographs," fascinating account of the history and culture of Hispanic New Mexico," scholarship, a major contribution to Hispanic studies.One critic even suggested that, before being placed in a glass case [with other rare books], it might serve as a coffee table book.Never!If anything, it will be a banquet table book, and will be the scene of great feasts-visual and literary.But their words, like mine, fail to express the impact this handsome three-volume study will have on you-the participant.This study will, like the objects that it treats, transcends time.Secure your copy.I can assure you that it will never gather dust (although it will go out-of-print).

Dean A. Porter, Ph. D.
Director Emeritus, The Snite Museum of Art
Professor of Art History
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Dedicated to the many people of New Mexico who created a rich and fascinating culture in a harsh land, A Land So Remote - Wooden Artifacts of Frontier New Mexico, salutes the importance of these vital and pragmatic wooden objects. That the people who made them survived and thrived, is a testament to their constancy and success.