People of Darkness (1980)

The third largest city in Texas (after Houston and San Antonio). Dallas is located in the northeastern part of the state in a flat, hot, and humid subtropical region. The area was originally inhabited by various indigenous peoples, and in the 18th century, with the arrival of the Spanish colonists, the territory was declared to be part of New Spain. The 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty opened the region to American settlers and much historical analyses points to the region's intrepid settlement by Anglo-Americans as provocation for the 1846 U.S.-Mexico War and the resulting 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which the U.S. acquired more than half of Mexico's territorial land base, including northeast Texas.

Dallas was founded in 1844 as a small village of farmers and craftsmen. After the arrival of the railroad in the 1880s, the town grew steadily, becoming a major center for commerce in the Southwest. Over time, the cotton, oil, aircraft, automobile, and high-tech industries were the main contributors to the city's development and thriving economy. The city made international news on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot, and killed, by Lee Harvey Oswald while his motorcade was passing through the downtown area. Today, Dallas is one of the most populous and diverse metropolitan area in the U.S.

A car rental company that was founded in the early 1920s by John D. Hertz. Its first rental office was opened in 1932 at the Midway Airport in Chicago, with many more to follow over the next decades as the company grew steadily. Today Hertz is a multinational corporation with branches all over the U.S. as well as in many countries abroad.

Unlike the typical four-door sedan design, a station wagon has five doors, because it does not have a rear trunk that is separate from the passenger compartment. Instead, the body of the car is one unified space, with room for cargo in the back that can be enlarged by folding down the back seats. The back of a station wagon can typically be accessed via a tailgate—a door that can be lowered to form a dock for easy loading. Station wagons were popularized as family cars after World War Two, and reached the peak of their popularity in the 1970s. Minivans, SUVS, and finally high-end hatchback crossovers replaced the station wagon, all of which replicate in some form it’s suburban family-on-the-go characteristics.

Often, station wagons are referred to colloquially as "wagons."

Also known as quaking aspen, this is the most commonly and widely distributed tree native to North America. In New Mexico it can be found in the higher mountains of the western two-thirds of the state. Aspens are small or medium-sized trees that often thrive in burned parts of forests and grow as nursing crops to evergreen conifers, which eventually take over and replace them. Aspen have a relatively slender, bright white trunk and broad, round leaves that tremble even in the slightest breeze (hence the name quaking aspen). The leaves are bright green in spring and summer, but turn yellow and orange in the fall.

A mortuary is a funeral service agency that specializes in planning memorial services, cremation options, and burial services. This includes preparing the body of the deceased for the funeral; helping choose a casket or an urn, music, and flowers; and arranging transportation to the cemetery. The Strong-Thorne Mortuary is a long-standing, renowned funeral home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

One of the largest American mining corporations to have operated in the 20th century. The company was founded in 1880, reached a peak of production in the 1950s, and in 1977 was bought by the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and eventually dissolved. Although copper was the original focus of Anaconda's operations, the company gradually diversified its ore mining interests to include aluminum, silver, uranium, and oil.

During the 1950s, Anaconda, along with other national mining companies, had invested in uranium mining as well as oil drilling in New Mexico, and had operated major production sites in the Grants mineral belt.

A travel bag used for short trips, usually designed as a small suitcase, with a zipper on top and either a shoulder strap or two handles. Flight bags are light and easy to lift, and are excellent for taking on a plane as carry-on luggage.

A strong, thick, durable cloth made of natural fibers such as hemp, flax, cotton, or jute. The name probably came from cannabis, the Latin term for hemp. Canvas cloth has been used for centuries to make sails, tents, and large carrying bags. A lighter variety, known as artists' canvas, is used for oil paintings.

A type of Navajo woven rug which depicts spiritual deities (yei) in designs based on elaborate sand-paintings. The yei style of weaving developed in the Shiprock, NM area the early years of the twentieth century. These rugs are usually small- or medium-sized, portraying front-facing, colorful, slender figures on white or tan backgrounds. Although the yei design represents religious figures, the rugs are not considered sacred objects and are normally used as decorative pieces to hang on the wall, much like fine art paintings.

Also called gnu, the wildebeest is a genus of antelope, found in its natural habitat in the savanna, bush lands, and woodlands of eastern and southern Africa. It has a distinctive, high-shouldered build, a broad and long muzzle, and short horns similar to those of a cow. The blue wildebeest is famous for migrating long distances in large herds, while the black wildebeest has adapted to changing habitats and has stopped migrating. Although threats such as extensive hunting, drought, and the spread of human settlement have led to periodic declines in population, both the blue and the black wildebeest are still numerous across wide ranges in southern Africa.