There is scarcely a tract on the Colorado Plateau that does not have evidence of human occupation. Many of the richest remains have been found in the Mesa Verde Province, which covers southwestern Colorado and adjacent parts of New Mexico and Utah. The archaeology of the north edge of the Southwest began in 1849 with the discovery of Chaco Canyon ......
The historical remains of nineteenth-century Western frontier military posts and battle sites of the Plains Indian wars are disappearing. Time and weather have taken their tolls, and many would have no traces left were it not for the worthy attention of local groups and city, state, and federal authorities. ""A Travel Guide to the Plains Indians ......
This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today. Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of "transnationalism" in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has ......
This unique anthology from scholars across the humanities and allied fields presents presents a vivid picture of the state of scholarship on transnationalism today. Are we living in a transnational world? The 900 percent rise in the use of "transnationalism" in publications since 1995 testifies to a defining phenomenon. International migration has ......
This beautifully illustrated overview of the folk arts of New Mexico from the sixteenth century to the present covers both religious and secular arts including festivals, music, dance, and the visual arts.
Among the monsters said to roam the world's jungles and desolate deserts, none is more feared than the chupacabra--the blood-sucking beast blamed for the mysterious deaths of thousands of animals since the 1990s. To some it is a joke; to many it is a very real threat and even a harbinger of the apocalypse. Originating in Latin America yet known ......
In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest. He traces the origins of the cuisine to the arrival of humans in the Americas, the work of the earliest farmers of Mesoamerica, and the most ancient trade networks joining peoples of the coast, plains, ......
A family memoir full of New Mexico flavor, ""Tortilla Chronicles"" serves up a hearty helping of the ""City Different"" from the perspective of the humble, hardworking Romeros, a family honored for its contributions to regional folk arts. Marie Romero Cash, herself a renowned artist, poignantly sketches each family member using his or her own ......
Sherry Monahan is an authority on ""the city that wouldn't die"" and its history. In ""Tombstone's Treasure"", she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly. When the discovery of silver at Tombstone first became known in mid-1880, there were about twenty-six saloons ......