Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Manufacturer: Ancient City Press
Written By: Peter White, N. Howard Thorp, Mary Ann White

Twenty-nine fascinating vignettes by a noted Southwest historian.

Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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

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

Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on a variety of southwestern themes. One section highlights three people who have dramatically shaped the region's history: pilot Charles A. Lindbergh, who helped turn New Mexico into a regional center for aviation and rocketry during the interwar years; physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who believed that New Mexico had restored him to health ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Ferenc M. Szasz

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

New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau encompasses the Bandelier National Monument and the atomic city of Los Alamos. On Rims and Ridges throws into stark relief what happens when native cultures and Euro-American commercial interests interact in such a remote area with limited resources. The demands of citizens and institutions have created a form of environmental gridlock more often ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: Hal K. Rothman

Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico Pr
Written By: John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks

Albuquerque Remembered is an informative and entertaining history of "The Duke City." Under the flags of Spain, Mexico, the United States, and for a brief period, the Confederate States, Albuquerque grew from a small farm and ranch village in the northern reaches of New Spain to the thirty-fifth largest city in the United States. Howard Bryan devotes special attention to some of the ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Howard Bryan