Reducere. Mary Austin published her autobiography in 1932 near the end of her long and creative career. "Earth Horizon" is both an account of her personal li...
Reducere. Imported to the United States from Europe in 1890 and released in Central Park, New York City, to fight the growing number of insect pests at that ...
Reducere. In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion ...
Reducere. The American Southwest possesses an extraordinary depth of cultural heritage and much of its history is preserved in its architecture. Particularly...
Reducere. This book details the outgrowth of years of study of Spanish-American colonial furniture as it was developed in the vast territory now included in ...
Reducere. The author introduces his fascinating book about grasshoppers and their relations by pointing out the error of Aesop's fable which compares the gra...
Reducere. What happens to wives when husbands die? The quick answer is widowhood. The deeper truth is they are forced into a life change that has serious ram...
Reducere. This book details the outgrowth of years of study of Spanish-American colonial furniture as it was developed in the vast territory now included in ...
Reducere. Dreaming of building an adobe home? This classic guide, with floor plans ranging from a small casita to larger ones gives 18 comprehensive period d...
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Reducere. In this one volume are clear and thorough instructions on remodeling adobe houses plus how to build an adobe fireplace. Illustrations and practical...
Reducere. In September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mex...
Reducere. In New Mexico, during Lent and Holy Week each year, the Penitent Brotherhood enacts a primitive Passion Play, which in its traditional ritual of se...
Reducere. The mother ditch, or acequia madre, is the main water line that is dug by hand and feeds many of the smaller acequias that cover the fertile land o...
Reducere. Desperados of frontier days in the United States command a certain amount of attraction. The frontier desperado was a rugged individualist stamped ...
Reducere. On March 9, 1878, three men were murdered in isolated Blackwater Canyon in New Mexico. The suspects were Billy the Kid and a number of his Regulato...
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Reducere. For centuries the American Indian literary tradition was primarily an oral one. Since written languages were rare among native North and South Amer...
Reducere. On a 140-acre campus on the high plains south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) stands as a world leader in con...
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Reducere. It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the ...
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Reducere. "This is my favorite kind of history, " writes Dick Haeberlin in "Southwestern American Literature, " "the story of a person I did not know about b...
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...
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Reducere. As someone who has been guiding people through the catacombs of their own lives for decades, Francis Dorff, O. Praem. is uniquely qualified to tell...
Reducere. High in the mountains of New Mexico, Taos has long been a magnet for artists. When writer Valmai Howe Elkins, escaping brutal east coast winters, b...
Reducere. The Santa Fe Trail was important in the early development and settlement of the American Southwest. This book offers over 40 pages of comprehensive...
Reducere. The Great American Turquoise Rush was the period of the largest concerted effort to mine, process and market turquoise in the history of the United...
Reducere. "Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They f...
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Reducere. DescriptionBy the early 1970s, an active bohemian colony had developed in Santa Fe and it became a cultural boom town. The number of art galleries ...
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Reducere. Red and green chiles share the spotlight with delectable sweets in these easy-to-follow recipes. The reader will find many useful hints and interes...
Reducere. This unusual book, Fray Ang lico Ch vez's personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano pe...
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Reducere. In this historical novel, Billy Old and Jeff Kidder were Arizona Rangers at the turn of the twentieth century and best friends. In 1908, while acti...
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Reducere. San Gabriel del Yunge Oweenge was not only the first European settlement in the Territory now known as New Mexico but it was also the first capital...
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Reducere. Alice Bullock says, "We can't go back." Thomas Wolfe said it and has been quoted ever since. Yet it bears repetition, especially today and in refer...
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Reducere. In 1950, after a fire raged through an area in south-central New Mexico, a small bear cub was found clinging to a pine tree. The cub had suffered s...
Reducere. The story of the colonization of Northern New Mexico and one of its leading "parajes" (El Camino Real campsite) will fascinate anyone interested in...
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Reducere. This book is a comprehensive gardening book for the high desert regions with emphasis on growing vegetables. The author also discusses various aspe...
Reducere. The M tis are the descendants of Cree and Assiniboine women who joined with French and Scottish men to raise children and shape a hybrid culture in...
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Reducere. Here is a comprehensive activity book for children that entertains and stretches the mind. Field-tested and educator-approved, the book provides a ...
Reducere. In March of 1924, D. H. Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence and the Honorable Dorothy Brett went to Taos, New Mexico, to absorb the color and romance of what...
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Reducere. This study of how the architecture of a building influences the people who work in it is of interest to architects, behavioralists, and management ...
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Reducere. Derek is a girl. He wasn't one of the boys as a kid. He admired, befriended, and socialized with the girls and always knew he was one of them, desp...
Reducere. Nina Otero-Warren's Spanish conquistador ancestors dramatically altered the social and political landscape in Santa Fe, New Mexico more than three ...
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Reducere. This tale is the author's life ramble that led to the adventure of building a cabin in the northern New Mexico wilderness. The place, called Santa ...
Reducere. After three long months at sea, Helga Heinrich and her four children sail into the thriving Indianola seaport on the Texas coast in 1853 to begin t...
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Reducere. This anthology, a companion to the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Commemoration publication, "All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, " affords Native American au...
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Reducere. This question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood a...
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Reducere. DescriptionMiguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to t...
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Reducere. This series of line drawings by legendary Santera (saint-maker) Marie Romero Cash, depict many of the popular saints painted by the santeros of the...
Reducere. American service men in England during World War II called American Red Cross girls "Doughnut Dollies." It was a warm and affectionate term designe...
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Reducere. In 1821 William Becknell and five comrades traveled from Franklin, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico, then the northern provincial capital of New Sp...
Reducere. It has been said that mineral and rock collecting is one of the most popular hobbies throughout the world and one that can be very rewarding and pl...
Reducere. A generation before the establishment of the European colonies on the West Coast of America, Spanish explorers and friars were trudging the deserts...
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Reducere. After the defeat of General Santa Anna in the year 1836, the Republic of Texas found itself with lots of land but few resources to protect it. One ...
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Reducere. The folklore of Spanish America is full of exciting accounts of a wandering, shrieking, tormented spirit called La Llorona, the "Wailing Woman." He...
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Reducere. In 1826 a seventeen-year-old Christopher "Kit" Carson ran away from his job as apprentice to a saddler in Franklin, Missouri and joined a merchant ...
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Reducere. John Gaw Meem was one of New Mexico's most renowned architects and his legacy is in part his contribution to the preservation and renewal of histor...
Reducere. Who built the mysterious spiral staircase in the little chapel at Loretto Inn in Santa Fe, New Mexico? Was it a master craftsman or the work of goo...