Manufacturer: Museum of New Mexico Press
Written By: Angelico Chavez

For all who love New Mexico, and for those who aspire to know the state, this book is a graceful and compelling summary of what has made the Land of Enchantment its distinctive self. Originally published in 1977 to commemorate the bicentennial of American Independence, New Mexico is now available for the first time in a quality paperback edition with a new introduction by the author. In ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Marc Simmons

Chronicling Coronado's explorations in the American Southwest, this fascinating history retraces the steps of the great adventurer.

Manufacturer: Museum of New Mexico Press
Written By: Stewart L. Udall

New Mexico is a single volume presentation of the fascinating succession of events and characters that make up our state's past. This revision of the 1988 edition takes the reader to the opening years of the twenty-first century.What they said about the earlier edition:"New Mexico covers a lot of ground. . . . It's chock-full of little known facts and fascinating anecdotes that give ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Calvin A. Roberts, Susan A. Roberts

For over forty years aural historian Jack Loeffler has wandered the West engaging people in conversations and recording those conversations for posterity. When asked by the New Mexico Humanities Council to produce an anthology of interviews that would combine elements of two projects sponsored by the Council, the Between Fences traveling exhibition and a project focused on the Great Depression and ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Jack Loeffler

Historian Marc Simmons is already a favorite among scholars, students, Hispanophiles, and borderland enthusiasts for his careful, readable histories of the American Southwest. In the twelve essays collected in Spanish Pathways, Simmons’s topical, in-depth approach to New Mexico’s colonial period is skillfully deployed. His original research and unique insights transform New Mexico’s ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Marc Simmons

Sophisticated and seductive, Santa Fe and Taos clearly illustrate why New Mexico is known as the "Land of Enchantment." The rugged landscape, diverse cultural traditions, and exceptional charm of these two unique destinations have lured explorers for hundreds of years. More than 200 postcards dating from 1905 to 1950 provide a visual tour of this intriguing and alluring area. Explore the Santa Fe ...

Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
Written By: Mary L. Martin, Ginny Parfitt

The Loretto Chapel has long been a destination for travelers to New Mexico and an architectural wonder. The story of the Sisters of Loretto's mission in Santa Fe and their Gothic-Revival Chapel with its miraculous, gravity-defying staircase -- built by a mysterious carpenter who answered their prayers -- are important chapters in Santa Fe history in the late nineteenth century. The author uncovers ...

Manufacturer: Museum of New Mexico Press
Written By: Mary J. Straw Cook

"Every cemetery is worth visiting, and the people in them are worth trying to remember. They were much like us". Thus the writers of The Dallas Morning News set out to explore the cemeteries of Texas and the surrounding states for the newspaper's Travel section. The more than forty-five stories serve as history lessons and travelogues for more than sixty cemeteries, chronicling the resting places ...

Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press
Written By: Bryan Woolley, Tom Simmons, Kathryn Straach, Bob Bersano

One of America's oldest public buildings of European origin, the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe celebrates its quatrocentennial in photographs, drawings, lithographs, and maps: the story of New Spain and four centuries of change. This lively pictorial drama for all ages sets the Palace as the historical stage upon which the major events of four hundred years are played, from the arrival of ...

Manufacturer: Museum of New Mexico Press
Written By: Emily Abbink