New Mexico: A History, Paperback

Reducere. New Mexico's harsh terrain, countless wars and epidemics were a challenging and fascinating environment for the many cultures and peoples who settl...

Reducere. The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in ove...

Reducere. First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relatio...

Reducere. This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from the Uni...

Reducere. This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive ...

Reducere. "The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine. . . . From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamer...

Reducere. Kit Carson (1809-1868) has long held a prominent place in the popular imagination of the American West. However, little is known about his family l...

Reducere. In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which...

Reducere. New Mexico comes alive in these fascinating stories about events that helped make New Mexico what it is today. From the life and times of Folsom Ma...

Reducere. This new edition of Donald L. Baars's classic The Colorado Plateau incorporates new text, maps, photographs, figures, tables, and bibliography to p...

Reducere. Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of M...

Reducere. Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ra...

Reducere. This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the le...

Reducere. An updated edition of a seminal work on the history of land ownership in the Southwest In New Mexico--once a Spanish colony, then part of Mexico--P...

Reducere. DescriptionPaula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the...

Reducere. Between 1539 and 1542, two thousand indigenous Mexicans, led by Spanish explorers, made an armed reconnaissance of what is now the American Southwe...

Modern Navajo tribal government originated in 1923 solely to approve oil leases. This book tracks the major changes brought to the Navajo people in...

Reducere. Collected and highly valued all over the world, Navajo weaving has been the subject of many aesthetic and historic studies. Grounded in archival re...

Reducere. El Cerrito, New Mexico captures the essence of a village that, despite cultural disintegration, sparks the passion of a small number of inhabitants...

DescriptionSylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) has been highly regarded for over a century for his archaeological work among the Maya pyramids. As direc...

Before and since its official closure in 1985, historic U.S. 66 became associated with the deserts, Indians, and cowboys of the Southwest, the Okie...

Reducere. When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American his...

Reducere. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior Land) is North America's oldest and longest road. Juan de O ate extended the Camino t...

Takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the writings of one of Mexico's early chroniclers, Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a bilingual...

Reducere. DescriptionOften overshadowed by the Ancestral Pueblo centers at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, the Middle San Juan is one of the most dynamic territ...

Reducere. The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth ce...

Reducere. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and absta...

Reducere. This classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the Univer...