New Mexico Chiles: History, Legend and Lore, Paperback - Kelly Urig

Reducere. To some, chile might be considered a condiment, but in New Mexico it takes center stage. Going back four centuries, native tribes, Spanish missiona...

Reducere. To some, chile might be considered a condiment, but in New Mexico it takes center stage. Going back four centuries, native tribes, Spanish missiona...

Reducere. Beginning in the seventeenth century, townsfolk and rural dwellers in the remote Spanish colonial city of Santa Fe maintained a provocative interes...

Reducere. Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose ro...

Reducere. Storytelling has been a vital and vivid tradition in Apache life. Coyote tales, the creation legend and stories of historic battles with Comanche a...

Reducere. Wisconsin is a land rich with stories. It was the "mother of all circuses, " a place of buried treasure and home to eerie ghosts and monsters. Nati...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc SimmonsFor all who love New Mexico, and for those who aspire to know the state, this book is a graceful and compelling...

Reducere. Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flick...

Reducere. A rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal that New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century's best known write...

Reducere. Many non-New Mexicans envision New Mexico as one large desert, yet New Mexico is very much a mountain state, with more than one hundred named mount...

DescriptionThe edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus's foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, wh...

Reducere. The unspoiled, wooded landscape of the Arkansas Ozarks is steeped in traditions, where legend and myth are a huge part of history. During the Civil...

Reducere. Find stories of magic and witches, sailors, pirates and shipwrecks and more in this book filled with folks with great stories and interesting lives...

Beginning in the seventeenth century, townsfolk and rural dwellers in the remote Spanish colonial city of Santa Fe maintained a provocative interes...

Reducere. This vintage book contains a detailed guide to Native American lore, history, and tradition. From how to pronounce Native American names to their d...

Reducere. Anglos have been coming to Santa Fe for centuries, and early in the last century the city's beauty and exotic cultural mix became particularly attr...

Reducere. This is a book about some bad things that can happen to you in the mountains-things that can kill you, in fact.Other books covering wilderness firs...

Reducere. There have been many histories of New Mexico written for the general public in recent years. However, New Mexico Past and Future approaches the sta...

Reducere. WEIRD HIGHWAY: OKLAHOMA ROUTE 66 HISTORY AND HAUNTINGS, LEGENDS AND LORE BY TROY TAYLORThere is no greater highway in American history than Route 6...

Reducere. King Arthur would get advice from his magician, Merlyn, in the mythic stories. The real Arthur (who lived over 500 years before the period of the m...

Reducere. With more than 40 illustrations and an entertaining informative text, this elegantly designed book captures the scope, powers, and romance of the T...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1931, folklorist Espinosa traveled throughout northern New Mexico asking Spanish-speaking residents for tales of olden ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael TurbackLong, long ago, in the foothills of the Chartreuse Mountains of France, a group of monks set out to lead liv...

Reducere. New Hampshire's historic graveyards, from Portsmouth to North Conway, have bizarre and eerie stories to offer their visitors. Graveyards often invo...

Reducere. "There was 'no god more present' than Dionysos: that is, out of all the ancient gods Dionysos was one of the few who people felt that they could re...

Reducere. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

Reducere. Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3: 00 on ...

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. DescriptionResearched and compiled by contemporary Wiccan expert and practicing witch Gerina Dunwich, this day-by-day calendar commemorates the pag...

Originally published in 1992 and available now only from UNM Press, An Illustrated History of New Mexico combines more than two hundred photographs...

DescriptionSolve puzzles from the past in this third book in the spine-tingling series, featuring creepy creatures, eerie encounters, and spooky sc...

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States. This book examines La Santa Muerte's role in peopl...

Reducere. Once upon a time in the Mora Valley of northern New Mexico there lived a farmer named Ponciano Gutiérrez. On a trip through the mountains he was ta...

Reducere. The legend of Quetzalc atl is the enduring epic myth of Mesoamerica. The gods create the universe, but man must carefully tend to the harmony of th...

Reducere. New Mexico's night sky generated speculation about alien visitation for centuries before the Roswell Incident of 1947. But the luminous spheres kno...

Reducere. Ghosts of Newport plumbs the depths of Newport s history and reveals a host of chilling tales in which fact and folklore intertwine. Today s Newpor...

Reducere. Memories of Torreon, New Mexico is a collection of stories about the people of Torreon, New Mexico by the people of Torreon, edited by Judy Alderet...

Reducere. As early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a quest to capture the magnificent...

Reducere. New Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect set...

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. DescriptionTrue to its nickname, New Mexico enchants some souls so much they never leave. The Express St. James of Cimarron plays host to the canta...

Reducere. New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or b...

Reducere. Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous...

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. DescriptionIn this first history of the Jews in New Mexico--from the colonial period to the present day--the author continuously ties the Jewish ex...

Reducere. Is the ChupaCabra mythical or real? Stories of the creature abound in Latino communities. The illusive creature is said to suck the blood of goats....

Reducere. It was Italian immigrants who first carried bottles of Fernet-Branca to the United States in their suitcases, introducing the distinctly bitter dig...

Reducere. These episodes are non-fiction accounts relating to New Mexico from the earliest visit by a priest, Fray Marcos de Niza, sent by the Viceroy of New...

Reducere. Award NameOklahoma Book AwardAward categoryChildren/Young AdultDescriptionJi-Stu, the Cherokee trickster rabbit, wakes early one morning and decide...

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